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f< conclude, that the fanative virtue of this water is 
,c in this fubtle volatile fulphur. 
It appears from thefe experiments, that this water 
is remarkably pure, light, free from earth and falts 
of any kind [5, 6,7, 9, 10, 1 1, 13, 14.] That it con- 
tains fome mineral fpirit, or at lead- a volatile eladick 
fluid [2, 3, 4.] That there is fome reafon tofufpedt 
that it is flightly impregnated with copper [5] ; a fo- 
lution of which may probably be effected by the 
fulphureous gas obferved by Dr. Hales [15]; and 
that it contains fomething bituminous [14]. 
So pure a water may naturally be fuppofed to keep 
well, and yet it is not always found to do fo, being 
hi fome feafons apt to get fourifh, and to be full of 
vifcid films, even when all imaginable care has 
been taken in regard to the bottles, &c, fo that there 
are certainly fome fubfiances concealed in the water, 
which our experiments have not as yet difcovered. 
This water has been long famed in the country 
for many extraordinary cures perform’d by it; but 
being fituated in a place, where there is at prefent no 
accommodation for flrangers, its ufe has not been fo 
extenfive as otherwife it might have been. I find it 
mentioned in Bannifler’s breviary of the eyes, prin- 
ted A. D. 1622, in thefe lines. 
A little more I’ll of their curing tell, 
How they help fore eyes with a new found well. 
Great fpeech of Malvern-hills was late reported, 
Unto which fpring people in troops reforted. 
There are two fprings, both of which rife very 
high up the hill, facing the Ead ; the uppermod, 
O o o 2 which 
