ij'i Bijhop of Landaff*s Obfervations on 
in 1770, it is rendered unlawful for any perfon whatever to 
fink any pit, or dig any quarry or mine, whereby the medi- 
cinal fprings or waters at Harrogate may be damaged or pol- 
luted ; fo that no attempts of the kind above-mentioned need 
be apprehended in future. 
This fourth well is that which is neareft to one of the barns* 
of the Crown-Inn, being about ten yards diftant from it. In dig- 
ging, a few years fince, the foundation of that barn, they met 
with fulphur water in feveral places. At a very little diftance 
from the four wells there are two others of the fame kind ; one 
in the yard of the Half-Moon-Inn, difcovered in digging for 
common water in 1783, and another which breaks out on the 
fide of the rivulet below that Inn. On the banks of that rivulet 
1 faw feveral other fulphureous fprings : they are eafily diftin- 
guifhed by the blacknefs of the earth over which they flow. 
On the declivity of a hill, about a quarter of a mile to the weft 
of the fulphur wells at Harrogate, there is a bog which has been 
formed by the rotting of wood: the earth of the rotten wood is 
in fome places four feet in thicknefs, and there is a ftratum confift- 
ing of clay, and fmall loofe decaying land- ftones, every where un- 
der it. The hill above is of grit-ftone. In this bog there are four 
more fulphur wells ; one at the top, near the rails which feparate 
the bog from the Common ; and three at the bottom, though 
one of thefe, ftri&ly fpeakimg, is not in the bog but at the 
fide of it in the ftratum on which the bog is fituated, and at 
the diftance of a yard or two from a rivulet of.frefh water, 
which runs from thence to Low Harrogate, palling clofe to 
the fide but above the level of the fulphur wells of that place. 
On the other fide of the hill, above the bog, and to the weft 
of it, there is another fulphur well on the fide of a brook ; and 
it has been thought that the wells both at Harrogate and in the 
bog 
