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don, or in London, and the efteds of this water 
carefully obferved in the many cafes it has been 
drank, yet I could not before prefume to offer you 
a politive determination, till I was convinced, by the 
trials of an abler and more competent judge, that I 
was not miftaken. But now through the obliging 
and friendly afliftance of Dr. Morris, I am enabled 
to communicate to you, and the public, the great 
utility and excellence of a medicinal water, well 
known and efteemed many years ago. By a repeti- 
tion alfo of every experiment made in the country, 
Dr. Morris, has in his laboratory, and in my prefence, 
afeertained the contents and properties of the So- 
merfham water; nay more, as you will obferve, Sir, 
by Dr. Morris’s letter annexed, one confiderable 
ingredient, namely allum, has been not only proved 
to exift in this water, but likewife the Dr. has pro- 
duced cryftals of allum, which Dodors * Lucas 
and Rutty ■f* declare, have not yet been procured 
from any water, although allowed to contain an 
aluminous fait. 
I fhall not trouble you, Sir, with a detail of all 
the common experiments fo well known to you, and 
which I had the fatisfadion of /hewing you, and 
many gentlemen of the different branches in the 
profeffion of phyfic, at my houfe the two laid fu tu- 
rners ; but proceed to an account of the water, and 
it’s contents. 
The Somerfham water, commonly called the So- 
merfham Spa, iffiies out from the declivity of a fmall 
hill, which is fituated on a heath, bearing the fame 
* Vol. II. p. 24- EfTay on Waters, 
f P. 299. Synopfis of xMinera) Waters. 
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