38 



sulfate of soda 2,52 parts 



carbonate of soda .... 1,54 



muriate of soda 0,87 



carbonate of lime .... 0,56 ,, 

 iron oxid 0,06 



5,55 parts. 



A later analysis by the celebrated Klaproth, of 

 Berlin, who visited Carlsbad, in 1789, proved so 

 similar to that of Becher, that, instead of relating it, 

 I shall only give here the result obtained, in 1822, by 

 Mr. Berzelius, who not only confirmed what had been 

 found previously, but discovered many other consti- 

 tuent parts, unknown to his predecessors. His analytic 

 proceedings are well known to learned chymists. 



"The Carlsbad water," says he, "is clear and 

 "colourless. Drunk at the wells, it tastes like weak 

 "chicken-broth 5 but, after some time, it contracts an 

 "alkaline and disagreable taste. It has no smell, and 

 "the existence of sulfurous hydrogen gaz is not to be 

 "detected by any test. Heated in a closed vessel, it 

 "deposits a very small quantity of a light yellowish 

 "sediment, the colour of which indicates evidently an 

 "oxid of iron. The specific weight of the water is 

 _t_ 18 C 1004,975. I weighed the Sprudel , the 

 "Hygiaea, the Miihlbrunn, the Neubrunn and Spital- 

 "brunn water, and found precisely in all the same 

 "specific weight." 



As collective result of all his analytic experiments, 

 Mr. Berzelius found in 1000 parts of weight of the 

 Sprudel water: 



