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bog are fupplied from this well. In a low ground, between 
High Harrogate and Knarefborough, there is a fulphur well ; 
another to the north of it in Bilton Park, at about the diftance 
of a mile ; and another to the fouth of it, at a lefs diftance, 
was difcovered this year in digging for common water by a 
perfon of the name of Richardson ; and, laftly, there is 
another at a place called Hookftone Crag : none of thefe laft 
mentioned wells are above two miles diftant from High Harro- 
gate ; and by an accurate fearch a great many more might, 
probably, be difcovered in the neighbourhood. 
It is not unufual to dig within a few yards of any of thefe 
fulphur wells, and to meet with water which is not ful- 
phureous. I ordered a well to be dug in the fore-mentioned 
bog, fixteen yards to the fouth of the fulphur well which is 
near the rails, and to the fame depth with it ; the water with 
which it was prefently filled was chalybeate, but in no degree 
fulphureous. I had another well dug, at about thirty yards 
diftance from the three fulphur wells which are iituated at the 
lower extremity of the bog ; this well, by the declivity of the 
ground, was ten or twelve feet below their level, but its water 
was not fulphureous. From the firft well which I dug, it is 
evident, that every part of the bog does not yield fulphur wa- 
ter; and from the fecond, which was funk into the clay, it is 
clear that every part of the ftratum on which the bog is placed 
does not yield it, though one of the wells is iituated in it. 
The fulphur wells at Harrogate are a great many feet below 
the level of thofe in the bog ; but they communicate with 
them, if we may rely on what Doflor Short has told, us — 
That about the beginning of this century, when the con- 
courfe of people was very great to the Spaw at Harrogate, one 
Robert Ward, an old man, made a hafon in the clay under 
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