L793' literary society, Newcastle. 3^ 



phur springs of Gill's land and Butterby, the salt springs 

 of the latter place and Birtley, rarious chalybeate yva- 

 X.trSj'b'c. And, in the present advanced state of chemica 

 science, particularly since the great improvements intro- 

 duced into the chemical investigation of •Waters by Berg- 

 man and others, a more accurate analysis might easily be 

 made of those which supply this /own than can be found 

 elsewhere j and perhaps further hints might be given for 

 obtaining a better supply. 



" III. But it is not merely on account of its mineral trea- 

 sures, or its capability of further improvement, that the 

 country will claim the attention of this society : The ro- 

 mantic icenery which is every where found in it, especially 

 on the banks of the Tyne, and the other rivers, will fur- 

 nifh a variety of subjects for the pencil^ and for the lover 

 of picturesque description. With these the society may 

 hope to be occasionally entertained. 



'' IV. And the profusion oi antiquities, both military 

 and ecclesiastical, not only in Newcastle, but along the 

 Roman Wall^which, though they have furnifhed abun- 

 dance of employment for so many able pens, are not yet 

 by any means exhausted, will engage the attention of the 

 patient inquirers after these venerable monuments of extinct 

 nations, customs, and religions. 



" V. In this respect, however, we may not, perhaps, be 

 able to make any great addition to the voluminous col- 

 lections of the indefatigable author of the History of 

 Newcastle. But it may, perhaps, be a subject which will 

 not altogether disappoint our inquiries, how far he has 

 left room for supplying his defects with regard to, i. The 

 exact enumeration, and accurate clafsification (as to sex 

 ege, and other circumstances,) of the inhabitants of the 

 town, which is not merely an object of curiosity, but might 

 answer many useful purposes with respect to medical in- 

 voL. xvi, £ + 



