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THE MINEKAL WEALTH OF HAEROGATE. BY E. HAYTON 
DAVIS, F.C.S. 
While recently making a complete examination of all our public 
sulphur springs, I was much impressed with the enormous quantities 
of salines which must be discharged annually by the sulphurous and 
ferruginous waters of Harrogate ; not only by those employed 
medicinally, but including the innumerable oozings in the beds of 
streams, and more particularly in various parts of the surface of the 
Bog-Field. 
Having determined the yields of a large number of the springs 
which up to the present had been only roughly estimated, I have 
had data before me to calculate with an approximation to correct- 
ness, the output of solid constituents by our mineral waters ; a 
matter which I hope will be of some interest to geologists, and I 
trust may lead to some explanation whence such vast quantities are 
derived. 
To commence with the Old Sulphur Well — the central well 
wdth which the History of Harrogate has been, and wdll always be 
jndissolubly connected — and the other springs in the cellars of the 
Royal Pump Room, these eight wells yield 240,000 galls, per annum. 
In the Bog-Field are 21 sulphur and 14 chalybeate wells ; 
attached to the Victoria Baths are the Old Crescent Well, Leaming- 
ton Spa, and five other mineral waters ; contiguous to the Ro^^al 
Pump Room is the Well of Litigation, approaching in sti-ength the 
Old Sulphur Well, and w^hich, fifty years aaro, was the cause of a 
law-suit, and the perpetration of a pun by the presiding judge about 
" letting well alone." 
This litigation produced one excellent result in bringing to bear 
upon the knotty problems connected with our spas, the most eminent 
scientific authorities of that day, both geological and chemical : Dr. 
