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flow from the rock in a minute ; it is perfectly limpid, and on being 

 boiled loses the odour of sulphur. 

 The contents in a wine-gallon are 



Muriate of soda • - - •> •> 4 grains. 

 Sulphuretted hydrogene gas «. - 17 cubic inches, 

 Azotic gas ...*••« 4 

 Carbonic acid gas - r . - » 4 

 Near the inn called the Shaws at the same place a spring of chaly^ 

 beate water rises to the day, of which the analysis, according to Dr. 

 Garnet, is as follows, 



Contents in a wine^gallon «• ■ ■» » <-. Iron 2,5 grains 

 Muriate of soda • 3, 

 Carbonic acid gas » « 14 cubic inches. 

 Azotic gas • * » • 5 

 On a moor a few miles distant from the same place another water 

 strongly impregnated with mineral ingredients is met with. It is of 

 a deep wine colour, and nauseous to the taste like ink ; it appeara to 

 contain sulphate of iron and sulphate of alumina in large proportions, 

 Near Turret Bum, which runs into the North Tyne in the north* 

 western part of Northumberland, a sulphuretted and a. chalybeate 

 spring were both detected -bubbling up from under a peat moss by 

 Mr, Joseph Fryer, 



At Pukesfield, towards the south-west, a spring of limpid water 

 holding sulphuretted hydrogene in solution has long been known, 

 and another of the same description issues from the rocks in the 

 bed of the Tees on the north side of the river about & mites above 

 Barnaud Castle. 



The Beds on the hanks of the Tweed, 

 The beds which are found on the banks of the Tweed, from 

 Pryburg towards the east, differ so much from the usual measures 

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