16 Sketch of Bristol. 



group of meadows (about a hundred yards wide), and 

 a few stagnant ponds. 



In the borough, there are two Mineral Springs. 

 Over one of them, a Bathing house was erected, many 

 years since. This is distant from the principal part 

 of the town, about half a mile, in a N. W. direction. 

 It is in a low piece of ground or meadow, and within 

 a few yards of the head of the pond, already mentioned. 



The surface of the water is covered with a dark 

 yellow or okre-coloured substance, though, in places, 

 it has a chalybeate appearance. Much of it also falls 

 to the bottom. 



The other spring (which I will call No. 2.) is 

 found at the west end of the village, in a meadow 

 also, on the north side of the cause-way. It appears 

 much like the former. The experiments, however, 

 which are afterwards to be mentioned, show a dif- 

 ference. 



The water of the first spring was analysed by Dr. 

 Rush, in 1773. Dr. A. Gregg informs me, that the 

 second, also, was analysed by Dr. John Abraham De 

 Normandie, then of this place. I do not know that 

 this analysis was ever published*. 



* It was published in the first volume of the Transactions of the 



American Philosophical Society. Editor. 



