^fr. K 8uttoi), and although bright and palatable, it was found to 
contain niinutc doses of iron-oxide (so I was informed by Mr. 
J. A. Miles), which render it undesirable as a water for drinking. 
INfr. I\mes drew my attention to the fact ho had noticed, of °a 
difference ot temperature between the two streams, sources of the 
Wensum, which unite to tlio oast of Tatterford Common. In 
bathing ho liad found that the one proceeding from Tatterford 
was decidedly warmer than that wliich flows from Rainham. This 
difforonco is most probably due to the direct innuenco of the sun’s 
rays, the Tatterfonl spring being moi-c open and exposed than the 
other, which flows through the wooded tracts of Whissonsett and 
Rainham. 
Rlomofield mentions that at Xorwich, “close by the River on 
the left liand, going out of P.isliop’s Gate, is a spring of pleasant 
water, formerly much resorted to.” A stone conduit wa.s erected 
over it in IGll by Sir John Pettus, which has been sketched by 
Stark. This spring, no doubt, issued from the Chalk, but as 
INfr. J. W. Ptobberds has remarked, “ Whether in conse.pienco of 
the excavations made in the bed of chalk, through which it flows, 
or from some hidden cause, it has been completely deserted by tlni 
uymph of the fountain ; the channel is left dry, and the stream has 
broken forth again at another point.”* 
I\ry colleague, Mr. F. J. Bennett, informs mo that there is little 
loubt that the .Afere at Biss is fed by springs from the Chalk, 
it contains a good deal of mineral matter, carbonate of lime, 
cliloridc of lime, chloride of sodium, &c.t 
Ihe fiishion for visiting spas has, in this country, almost ceased. 
I hey wore recommended by one doctor because they wore 
medicines prepared in the laboratory of Xature, “the constant 
accuracy of whoso results is so certain that [as he remarked] wo 
ourselves cannot be sure of success in any of our chemico-mcdical 
compositions.”]; 
1 T ‘w Norfolk,’ by James Stark ; 
by J. W. Robberds. 4to. Norwich, 1828, 1834. 
with descriptions 
t See paper by 13. Wiseman on the effect of the Alere of Di 
various .substances immersed in it (Pliil. Trans, vol. Ixxxviii. p. 567). 
ss on 
: ‘ Tlie Spas of England’ (Northern Spas', by A. B. Granville 
,M.D. (1841). 
