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was tranfmitted to Dublin, became of a dufky brown 

 and yellowifh colour, being hurt by carriage and hot 

 weather ; but it (till retained its fulphureous fmell, and 

 heightened the colour of gold and of copper. - As 

 moft of our fulphureous waters bear carriage, if they 

 were carefully bottled and corked, and brought cool, 

 they might, no doubt, be conveyed to any diftance, 

 without diminution of their virtues. This water is 

 alfo impregnated with iron, as it gives the purple 

 colour with galls, and the blue with logwood, fo that 

 there is a combination of both minerals in it. Six 

 grains of iediment, obtained by evaporating three and 

 one -half pints, yielded a brackifh and bitter tafte, made 

 an ebullition with oil of vitriol and fpirit of fait, 

 fparkled much, flunk, and burned on a hot iron ; and 

 an infufion of it in diflilled water exhibited the fame 

 appearances with oil of tartar, per deliquium,. arid milk, 

 as the bitter purging fait does -, fo that, befides ful- 

 phur - and iron, there is alfo fome calcareous nitre, 

 though not in quantity fufficient to make it; a purging 

 water. Upon the whole then, to advance the credit 

 of our domeftic mineral waters, feems an object wor- 

 thy of attention, by Ihewing, that they poflefs all the 

 eflential ingredients of the foreign ones, that, mixed 

 ; with certain fubftances, they excite the fame appear- 

 ances, and laftly, that the virtues of each are found to 

 be much alike, and that, confequently, ours may, in 

 mofl cafes, be happily fubftituted in their room, thereby 



putting 



