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3. This water, new out of the fpring has no 

 peculiar fincll; but violent agitation makes it at- 

 ford an hepatic odour. This odour is Wronger in 

 the water of the new than in that of the old 

 fpring; and again in that of the old than in that 

 of the bath -fpring. 



4. This water feels cold. In the new well the 

 mercury ftood in the thermometer at fix one- 

 fourth degrees; while the temperature ofthcat- 

 mofphcrc was at the fame time no Icfs than thir* 

 teen degrees, The fame thing was obfcrvcd of 

 the old well. On the wall inclofmg the latter, 

 I found an infcriptiou bearing, that on the 25th 

 of June 1757, the thermometer which had flood 

 in the open air at twenty one-half degrees above 

 7.cro, fell in the well to eight degrees ; and that 

 at five in the morning on June i, 1758, the tem- 

 perature oftiic atmofpherc, being nineteen and a 

 half degrees, that of the water in the well was 

 only fix. Between this lafl obfcrvation and my 

 own there is only one-fourth of a degree of diffe- 

 rence. Tim difference might be owing to a faul- 

 ty eon ft ruction of the thermometer. Bcrge has 

 alligned the fame degrees of temperature to the 

 mineral waters of Lokarne. As to the mercury 

 tailing in the thermometer only to the eighth 

 degree in the old fpring; that might happen in 

 confequence of the inftrument not being fuf- 

 ficicntly immcrfcd in the water, or being too haf- 

 tily taken out. Whofc were the obfervations 



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