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tunnelling, much used in Cheshire to keep out the 
freshes." 
A more recent account of this spring has heen 
given by Dr. Male of Birmingham, in the Midland 
Reporter, from whose analysis it appears that it 
contains common salt, muriate of lime, muriate of 
magnesia, muriate of iron, carbonic acid gas, green 
oxide of iron, azotic gas, silica, and sulphate of lime. 
By comparing the solid ingredients of Cradley 
spring with sea water, and the well known efficacious 
water of Moffat, it is evident we have in it a remedy 
of no mean value. Numbers of the inhabitants 
of Dudley and its neighbourhood. Dr. Male says, 
have been for a series of years in the habit of using 
this water in cases of scrofula, and strumous swellings 
of the glands, indigestion, constipation of the bowels, 
diseases of the skin, worms, jaundice, and bilious 
diseases. 
The spring yields about eight gallons an hour, and 
has very strong purgative qualities, in which particu- 
lar it greatly exceeds either the Cheltenham or Leam- 
ington waters. The Lord Dudley erected a bath 
which is supplied by this water, but the remote 
situation, the vicinity of collieries, badness of roads, 
and deficiency of convenience will, for ever, prevent 
this being a fashionable place of resort, although it is 
by no means improbable that when suitable accom- 
modation is afforded, it will, at no very distant period, 
be a place of refuge for the afflicted. 
Situated nearly in the centre of the county, and oi^ 
the river Salwarp, is Droitwich, long celebrated for 
