346 OLIVER: MINERAL SPRINGS OF THE WEST RIDING. 
Samj)Us taken Feb., 1880. Grains in imp. gallon. 
Skipton 
SO3 
Cl. 
Alk. Garb. 
Total Solids 
2.4 
12.7 
Present 
55.5 
Broughton 
Present 
74.6 
None 
215.5 
Langber 
Present 
59.5 
198.3 
Elslack 
Present 
2.2 
Present 
28.7 
Aldfield 
Present 
153.5 
None 
294.7 
Wigglesworth 
Present 
6.2 
Abundant' 66.5 
1 
Harrogate 
Old Sulphur 
None 
619.6 
None 
1061.7 
for the water of the ocean to permeate as far inland as, and to the 
altitude of, Harrogate, how are we to account for the abstraction of 
the sulphates which form so large a proportion as one-tenth of the 
solid constituents of sea water ? 
(2) Sediments and precipitates f rom the ancient sea in which the 
carbonijerous rocks were de2:)osited. — I need scarcely remind you that 
the Mountain Limestone exposed to the west of Bolton Bridge implies 
an origin in clear, deep sea water, and that the massive beds of 
Gritstone that flank the anticlinal, and that abound most to the east 
of the Wharf e are the sea-shore formations of open tidal seas. Both 
these marine conditions are obviously not favourable to the depos- 
ition of saline matter. Not so, however, the transitional Crinoidal 
Limestone of the Bogs-Field and Low Harrogate ; for the only fossil 
organic remains it presents — the joints of small encrinites — suggest 
a shallow sea, or other conditions unfavourable to the development 
