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V. Sixteen ounces avoirdupois, carefully evaporated toa 

 drynefs in a China bowl in B. M. left one grain of a yel- 

 lowifh brown powder of the tafte of tart, tartariz. 



VL Linen, moifkned with the fcum floating on the top 

 of the ipring, is tinged with a ftrong iron mold. 



VIL This water In weight is exatT:ly the fame as that 

 of rain water. 



From thefe few experiments, it is fufficiently evident 

 that this water, in its natural (tate, contains a large portion 

 of iron diflblved in pure water by means of an acid, 

 which acid is extremely volatile, and probably of the vi-- 

 triolic kind; principles fimilar to thofe of the much cele- 

 brated w^aters of the German Spa, with which they like- 

 wife agree in the effeds which immediately follow upon 

 drinking them; fuch as quickening the pulfe, exciting aa 

 agreeable warmth in the ftomach, promoting the appetite, 

 and occafioning a flow of fpirits, and a greater degree of 

 chearfulnefs^ 



Hence we may jxiftly conclude, that like thofe they will 

 be very beneficial in all that numerous train of difeafes 

 which arife from a debilitated and relaxed ftate of the folid 

 parts of the human body, brought on by living in warm- 

 climates, immoderate evacutions, &c. fuch as hypochon- 

 driacal complaints, melancholy, lofsof appetite, and in- 

 digeflion, with habitual ficknefs and pains of the ftomach 



and bowels, and all their unhappy confequences; rickets, 

 lamenefs, and fome paralytic complaints; and; that they 

 will likewife prove powerful deobftruents and alteratives, 

 opening obftrudlons, and difcharging what is obnoxious 

 by the feveral emund:ories. 



Nor indeed are thefe virtues attributed to them from 

 conjedure and analogy only; but in fome meafure, from 

 the teftimony of fadt and experience. For although It 

 would not be very eafy, till the waters become more ge- 

 nerally known, Jo colled any number of accurate ^uid 

 well attefted cafes, yet, from the ftridcft enquiry from 

 perfons who have fpent their lives, near thefe fprings, it is' 



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