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By THOS. B. GROVES. 



N the neighbourhood of Weymouth, issuing from shaley 

 beds strongly impregnated with pyrites, there are 

 numerous sulphur springs; the most considerable, 

 though not perhaps the most potent, being that of 

 Nottington, some two and a-half miles from the 

 borough This has always had a reputation for 

 medicinal value; but it was not until the end of 

 the last century that steps were taken to inclose the spring, and to 

 furnish certain conveniences in the way of pumps, baths, &c. This 

 action was mainly due to John Crane, physician, at Dorchester, 

 whose work, " An Account of the Nature, Properties, and Medicinal 

 Use of the Mineral Water at Nottington," I propose to re\iew. 

 The book is a little duodecimo of 44 pages, with an illustration 

 giving the then appearance of the well. It was printed by 

 T. Lockett, Dorchester (year not stated), and was to be sold 

 for Is. 



The author commences \\ith an attempt to define the taste of 

 the water, and shows some skill in leading up to the inevitable 

 conclusion that it is disgusting. He writes : " This spring, in the 

 opinion of many, resembles very much to the palate a weak 

 solution of sal polychrest : it has been compared to a boiled egg 

 by some, somewhat stale, and by others to rotten eggs." Then, 



