NATURAL HISTORY* 
115 
mineralogy of our county, abundance of opportunity 
is afforded, and our Geological Committee will con- 
sequently have ample field for their exertions. 
Mineral Waters. Worcestershire is singularly 
rich in the production of Mineral Waters, the quali- 
ties of which are very various. The springs of most 
notoriety, and which indeed have obtained great 
celebrity in the cure of several diseases, are those 
of Malvern, and on this account I shall first notice 
them. Throughout the whole extent of the Mah^ern 
Hills there are several small springs, some of which 
are found to be mineralized. These waters were 
first examined by Dr. Wall, of Oxford, in 1756 ; 
afterwards by Dr. Wilson Philip, in 1805. There are 
two principal springs, that at St. Anne's Well, on the 
Worcestershire Beacon, and the Holy Well Water, 
midway between Great and Little Malvern ; besides 
which there is a chalybeate spring impregnated with 
simple carbonate of iron. The result of the several 
analyses that have been made of the Holy Well and 
St. Anne's water is not very satisfactory, as it has 
not discovered any active principle in them capable of 
producing very beneficial results. Dr. Wilson Philip's 
analysis, which places the contents of the water in 
the most favourable point of view, represents that it 
contains carbonate of soda and a very small propor- 
tion of carbonate of iron, not more than a quarter of 
a grain in a gallon of water ; but it seems doubtful 
whether the carbonate of iron which appeared to be 
detected by Dr. Philip in the water, was not afforded 
by the prussiate of potash and muriatic acid, which he 
