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Examination of Mineral Water, fyc. 
[Jan. 
C. * Were soluble iu warm distilled water, 
leaving insoluble, 
D. From which dilute nitric acid 3 ; dissolved carb. of lime, 
E. Leaving the residuum sulphate of lime, 
2,04 
6,98 
0,30 
6,68 
F. The aqueous solution (C.) Weighing 2,04 grains, gave no trace of carbonates 
or muriates ; the sulphuric acid was precipitated by acetate of baryta, and the mag- 
nesia by carbonate of ammonia and phosporic acid; the examination for alumina 
was inadvertently omitted. 
Fxom the foregoing products of 8 oz. a wine pint of the water may be estimated 
to contain 
Gaseous j carbonic acid gas, 
1,712 cub. inches. 
Saline; 
muriate of magnesia, 
protoxide of iron, 
carbonate of lime, 
sulphate of lime, 
sulphate of magnesia (and alumina ?) 
Grains. 
3,00 
trace. 
0,60 
13,36 
4,08 
Total 21,04 
The Sediment was collected, by washing the bottle with distilled water- it subside 
very slowly ; the quantity was inconsiderable ; the colour light grey- and it adhered 
with great tenacity, to the glass in which it was dried. Y> ' d 
Enclosed in a glass tube, and exposed to the heat of a lamn , 
w.th the blowpipe ; it blackened immediately : a highly fetid’ and l 
was evolved, and a yellowish oily-looking fluid deposited on the ' T B ° do “ 
above which were distinct traces of sulnhur • r* sides ol the tube, 
stantly discoloured, and water being added ’ c-lveT • and S1 . lver foil w ere in- 
ryta ; the residuum was a light fibrous carbon P iec *P»tate with acetate of ba- 
Sulphur was then evidently present in the sediment 
for when a minute portion of sulphur was mixed with tL™ Pr ° babl > r Petroleum ; 
bazar, (earth oil,) and subjected to the same process the petroleum of the 
ticularly the evolution of the foetid gas which fm * t - p loenomei i a , and par- 
rot be mistaken, were produced! * ^ ^ itS affectin & the stomach, can- 
P'rora the imperfection of the cork it 
mechanically suspended in the water, or deposUeTrth'''^ 1116 '' Sulphur ™ 
ted hydrogen, originally present in it ; this';, kno j! “ ‘'““'"Position of sulphuret- 
Europe ; it may, therefore, much mote probable or to some degree in 
temperature, and with a far greater intensity here “ a “** 
i would have been so completely effected Ls to lo ’ “ 11 1S 9 ues ‘ionable, whether 
“on ■» ‘he water. aS to lea ™ »» ‘race of gaseous impregna- 
H more of the water can be procured, I shall t ,„ ,, 
root the uncertainty; for the peculiar state " “J^ofi it to. cor- 
itherto only known of the Bath waters, promise " T " ° n Cxists “ which is 
high importance, in a medical point of view ^ F theSe sprin ^ one day of 
PM January , 1828. 
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