An Analyfis of two Mineral Strings, tsfc, 255 



they are too enlightened to be impofed upon, and induced 

 to give the practice a countenance and fupport to which it 

 may have no claim. 



VI. An Anchfis of the Waters of two Mineral Springs at 

 Lemington Priors, near Warwick ; including E vperiments 

 tending to elucidate the Origin of the Muriatic Acid. By 

 V/ILLI AM LAM BR, M. A. late Fellow of St. John's College, 

 Cambridge. From the Memoirs of the Literary and Philo- 

 fophical Society of Manchefter, Vol. V. Part I. 



1 HE author of this ingenious paper has fhewn himfelf a 

 mafter in the art of analyfis. The apparent difcovery of the 

 origin of the muriatic acid, to which Mr. Lambe's labours 

 have led, is fo well worthy of the attention of philofophers, 

 as it may lead to a difcovery of the compofition of other 

 acids whole bafes are at pre fen t unknown, that we have not 

 a doubt but the path he has laid open will be explored by 

 all the able chemifls of Europe. 



After fome very pertinent introductory remarks, the 

 author obferves, that as both the fprings rife many feet bdow 

 the earth, it feems needlefs to enter into any particulars 

 concerning the nature of the furface, or the qualities of the 

 foil of the circumjacent diflrict, and therefore proceeds to 

 the objects of his enquiry as follows : 



ON THE WATER OF THE NEW BATHS. 



The fpring was difeovered in the year 1790, at the depth 

 of 42 feet from the furface of the ground. A well is funk 

 about 24 feet deep. In the courfe of this depth there is a 

 rock the thicknefs of 8 or 10 feet; afterwards a bed of 

 marl; after penetrating which, another rock, much harder 

 than the former, is found. Through this fecond rock a bore 

 is made 18 feet deep, where there is a fmall cleft in the 

 rock. There are many little fprings founj in thiscoirfe; 

 7 but 



