i8 STATISTICAL SURVEY 



SECT. 7. Mineral Waters. 



THE mineral waters of this county are of two 

 kinds, chalybeate and fulphur. The chalybeate are 

 numerous ; thofe, which are known, amount to eight, 

 namely, i. Ardmillan, on the lough of Strangford, in 

 the parifh of Tullynakill , 2. Killaghee, three miles 

 weft of Donaghadee; 3. Granlhaw ; thefe two are 

 both in the barony of Ardes ; 4. Kirkdonnell, about 

 three miles north-weft of Newtown ; 5. Magheralin ; 

 6. Dromore ; 7. Newry ; and 8. at Tierkelly, two 

 miles from Rathfryland. Thefe waters differ from 

 each other, chiefly in the different degrees of ftrength 

 of the mineral impregnation. They are all, except 

 Newry, ftrong chalybeates, as appears from their fer- 

 ruginous tafte, the purple colour they ftrike with galls 

 and fumach, the blue tincture they exhibit with log- 

 wood, and the ochreous contents they yield by evapo- 

 ration. The following account of experiments made 

 on feveral of them is taken from the Hiftory of the 

 County of Down-; they were made in May 1743, I 

 have not heard of any further trials fmce that period. 

 Newry fpa was examined the fourth of May, on' the 

 fpot, at one in the afternoon ; and it ftruck a delicate 

 purple with galls, and a deep violet, or blue, with log- 

 wood ; hence it is a chalybeate, though of the weaker 

 clafs i however, it is confiderable enough to deferve 



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