NATURAL HISTORY. 
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In noticing the mineral springs of Malvern I must 
not omit to mention that the water of Walm's Well^ 
which is situated at the southern base of the Here- 
fordshire Beacon, has long been celebrated, by the 
poor, as being more efficacious than the springs that 
have been before alluded to ; and Mr. Lewis, of Han-" 
ley, tells me he thinks there is some good ground for 
giving this spring the preference ; for he has had 
under his care some very obstinate cases of cutaneous 
diseases which derived very little benefit from the use 
of the water at the Holy Well, and St. Anne's Well, 
but were much relieved by bathing at Walm's Well. ' 
The Mineral Springs at Malvern form, however, 
but a part of those which occur in this singularly 
productive county. It contains others which in 
point of efficacy and activity of operation on the 
system, are scarcely inferior to those of Cheltenham 
and Leamington ; and we only require some accident 
tal circumstance to tempt fashionable visiters to resort 
to the neighbourhood of Evesham, in order that the 
springs of this spot may vie with those of either 
of the two former celebrated watering places in their 
far-famed restorative virtues. 
It had long been known that several wells near the 
town of Evesham, and at some distance from each 
other, contained saline ingredients, and in the Autumn 
of the year 1821, a public meeting took place at 
the Town Hall of Evesham, and a Committee was 
appointed, under whose direction wells were sunk 
at Hampton. A specimen of the water flowing 
into one of them, about eleven feet below the surface 
