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reservoir, from which it is conveyed in leaden pipes to the greater 
part of the town, and is certainly a soft water, and answers very 
well for washing, and all other domestic purposes. The well- 
w^ater is more or less hard ; the softest is brought from Sion Hill 
and New Radford water-works, in carts, to supply the inhabi- 
tants of those parts of the town that are not furnished with water 
by pipes from the reservoir. The well-water in the town is very 
hard, and unfit for domestic purposes, although many persons, 
I know, use it for drinking, brewing, and making tea, in prefer- 
ence to the river- water. Well-water is also very much employed 
by the inhabitants of the country round Nottingham, and some of 
the wells are very deep, particularly in the coal district, where 
they are often drained of their water by sinking deep shafts to 
get the coal. A respectable surgeon, who practises in the coal 
district, informs me, that bronchocele is more common now than 
it was in his younger days, and he ascribes it to the wells being 
sunk deeper than formerly, from the circumstance mentioned 
above. In certain districts of the Alps, bronchocele occurs so 
frequently and so generally, that it appears to be both hereditary 
and endemial ; by some, the disease has been ascribed to elevated 
situation and low temperature ; by others, to the use of snow or 
ice-water. If elevated situation and low temperature had any 
share in the production of the disease, we ought to meet with it 
every day in Sweden, Norway, and the Highlands of Scot- 
land ; but, so far from this being the case, the fact is, that the 
disease is unknown in those countries except by name. The 
late Dr Reeve of Norwich, who had travelled in Switzer- 
land, and was familiar with bronchocele, observes, u with re- 
gard to the alleged causes of goitre, the general opinion of its 
beino; endemial in mountainous countries is of no value, because 
the disease is rare in Scotland, and very common in the county 
of Norfolk.'” That bronchocele is occasioned by something in 
the river or well water, used by persons residing in the district 
where the disease is endemic, and not by snow or ice- water, is, 
I think, proved beyond a doubt, by the following facts, record- 
ed by Dr Richardson, who accompanied the late arduous expe- 
dition to the American Polar Regions, under the command of 
Captain Franklin, of the Royal Navy. He says, u broncho- 
cele or goitre, is a common disorder at Edmonstone. I examin- 
