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Mr. Schmeisser's Analysis of 
EXPERIMENT XIV. 
A quantity of the Kilburn water having been gently eva- 
porated to dryness, a powder remained ; some of this being 
triturated with vegetable alkali, there was no smell of volatile 
alkali perceived. 
EXPERIMENT XV. 
A little of the powder having been mixed with tartar, and 
thrown into a red hot crucible, no detonation happened ; of 
course nitre was not one of the constituent parts. 
EXPERIMENT XVI. 
On moistening a little of the powder with pure and concen- 
trated vitriolic acid, there arose muriatic vapours ; a proof there 
were no salts formed with the nitrous acid existing in this 
water. 
The Kilburn water therefore contains fixed air, hepatic air, 
earthy neutral salts, vitriolated and muriated neutral salts, cal- 
careous earth, magnesia, selenite, and a very little iron. 
These component parts of this mineral water appeared on 
the addition of reacting substances ; and with this guide I pro- 
ceed to the analysis. I beg, however, first to mention another 
experiment or two, relative to the effects of this water. Two 
quarts of the fresh drawn water having been successively drank, 
operated gently downwards, but at the same time affected the 
head a little. This species of intoxication was, however, not 
produced, if the water had been freed from its hepatic air. 
The celerity of the pulse was but little increased by it ; yet 
the following experiment will prove that it pervaded the whole 
system, and afford a very strong argument in favour of its 
