the Sulphur Wells at Harrogate. 175 
and if that fhould, as it probably would be the cafe, one or 
more baths might be eredted after the manner of thofe at Bux- 
ton and other places ; or, by proper additional buildings, warm 
Bathing in fulphureous water might be pradtifed, as is done in 
common water in the bagnios in London. The faltnefs of the 
fulphureous water, if that fhould be thought ufeful, might 
eafily be made even greater than that of fea water, by adding a 
quarter of a pound of common fait to every gallon of the 
water ufed in forming a bath. The waters at Harrogate, 
though they have long been very beneficial, have not yet been 
rendered fo ufeful to mankind, as an intelligent and enter- 
prifing perfon might make them. The alternate ftrata of fand, 
ftone, and fhale, which compofe the lower hills near the wells 
at Harrogate, dip very much, as may be feen in a ftone quarry 
about two hundred yards from the wells; and the fame cir- 
eumftance may be obferved in dry weather, in following the 
bottom of the brook from the village up to the bog; and 
hence, if there be a communication between the waters of the 
bog and of the village, as Dodtor Short afferts, it is probable, 
that the fame ftratum of (hale which is feen at the bottom of 
the wells at the village, breaks out again at the bog above the 
village, and that the water finds its way from the bog to the 
village through the crevices of that ftratum. 
After having obferved, as carefully as 1 could, the number 
and lituation of the fulphur wells about Harrogate, I took 
notice of the temperature of the four at the village. In the 
month of June, i 780, when the thermometer in the fhade was 
72 0 , and the pump water at the Granby-Inn, the well of which 
is fifty feet deep, was 48°, the ftrongeft of the fulphur wells, 
being that of which invalids ufualiy drink, was 5a®. On the 
29th of July in this year, after the earth had been parched ' 
with •; 
