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were opened ; and in his treatise, An Account of Askern and its 
Mineral Springs, together with a Sketch of the Natural History and 
a brief Topography of the immediate neighbourhood, published in 
1842, Dr. Edwin Lankester speaks of six wells, five of which he 
examined with the aid of Mr. West, of Leeds, the analyses seemingly- 
being made in 1840. 
The dissolved gaseous constituents in cubic inches of gas per 
imperial gallon of the water were as follows : — 
Manor Well ... 
Sulphuretted 
Hydrogen. 
8 
Carbonic 
Acid. 
5£ 
Nitrogen. 
8 
Terrace Well . . . 
... 8* ... 
14* 
12 
Charity Well ... 
... 6i ... 
81 
.. ni 
South Parade Well 
6 
8 
li 
Madder Close Well 
... 14 
13 
li 
The dissolved solid 
constituents in 
two of the 
wells were as 
ows, the results being stated in grains per imperial gallon : — 
Sulphate of Magnesia 
Manor Well. 
34 
Charity Well. 
18 
Chloride of Calcium 
3 
4 
Sulphate of Lime 
110 
104 
Carbonate of Lime 
6 
12 
Carbonate of Soda 
26 
179 
26 
164 
The quantity of dissolved solid matter in the case of the Terrace 
Well is said to be 144 grains ; in the South Parade Well 140 grains ; 
and in the Madder Close Well 100 grains, its composition, in all 
cases, being similar to that in the Manor and Charity Wells. 
It may be noted that according to these results the waters con- 
tain a somewhat large quautity of sodium carbonate, but as a matter 
of fact the waters and the residues obtained from them are not 
alkaline ; and the conclusion that this compound was present arose, 
doubtless, from the manner in which Lankester and West combined 
the acids and bases when working out the analytical data. There is 
no evidence of the presence of this salt in the waters. 
The Present Wells. 
Askern stands on the edge of an extensive peat bog, which is, as 
