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DAVIS: MINEEAL WEALTH OF HARROGATE. 
Smith, the father of English geology, Phillips, Daniell, Dalton, 
Clanny, the inventor of a safety-lamp. West, Hunter, Sopwith, were 
all engaged, and even Faraday was invited to join in the fray, 
which, however, he declined. 
In the Montpellier Gardens and adjoining it, are nine sulphur 
wells, one of which is the strong sulphur, rivaling the Old Well in 
strength of salines, and exceeding it in gases. In the same gardens 
is the famed Kissingen Well of which more will be said further on. 
In the Concert Room grounds is the unique Chloride of Iron Spa 
and Carbonate of Iron Well. The Old Spa and Tewit Well complete 
the list of waters now utilized. 
Taking the yields and strengths of these wells which are known, 
I think I am rather understating in assuming that the total yield of 
solid constituents by all our mineral waters is not less than 100 tons 
per annum, which if formed into a cylindrical column ten feet in 
diameter, would rise to a height of seventy feet, or in other words, 
it would form two obelesks each larger than Cleopatra's Needle by 
nearly 200 cubic feet. 
The Sulphur waters in former times furnished a branch of 
industry which has long since fallen into disuse ; to quote the words 
of the old chronicle which dates back 230 years (1656), "the inhab- 
itants near the wells, yearly, when the company is gone boil great 
quantities of the Water, and procure Salt from it, which is sold in 
the Country and sent up to London.''' 
Another point of interest is to what a comparatively small area 
our mineral waters are confined. A space measuring 760 yards by 
180 yards includes all except the weak chalybeate waters on the 
Stray ; while within the space inclosed by the walls of the Old 
Sulphur Well Pump Room, measuring about 10 yards square, 13 
tons of solids per annum are discharged by the eight springs situated 
in this circumscribed space ; and these, though in such close proximity 
to each other, differ not only in strength but also in constituents ; 
within five feet of the Old Sulphur Well is another only two thirds 
the strength ; and eight feet from this latter, is another sulphur 
water only one third the strength of the Old Well in solid constitu- 
ents and sulphur compounds. 
