PHILOSOPHICAL 



TRANSACTIONS. 



I. An Account of an artificial Spring of IFatev, By Erafmus 



Darwin, M, D, F. R, S, 



Read November 4, 1784. 

 To the Prefident and Fellows of the Royal Society. 



GENTLEMEN, Derby, July 16, 1 784. 



CONFIDENT that every atom which may contribute to 

 increale the treafury of iifeful knowledge, whicli you are 

 fo fuccefsfully endeavouring to accumulate, will be agreeable 

 and intei^fting to the Society, I fend you an account of an 

 artificial fpring of water, which. I produced laft fummer near 

 the fide of the river Darwent in Derby. 



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