BATH WATER. 
by persons from all the adjacent counties. The water 
is employed both externally and internally, and to great 
extent. Its principal value, as a bath, arises from its 
very copious supply, its purity, and its high tempera- 
ture. The sensation which is felt from bathing in it is 
considered to be such as would be experienced from 
any bath heated to the highest temperature which is 
compatible with giving some sensation of cold when, 
the body is first plunged into it. This water is also used 
as an internal medicine ; and is frequently used by the 
inhabitants as their common beverage, and for such 
domestic purposes as its hardness will admit. 
There are several springs and several distinct baths ; 
but the original and most ancient of them is called 
St. Ann's Well, and is enclosed in an elegant stone 
building. These waters are frequented by persons 
afflicted with the rheumatism r gout, diseases of the ali- 
mentary organs, and kidneys, and various other com- 
plaints : and the chief influx of company is during the 
summer and autumnal months. 
The situation of Buxton is in a narrow and funnel- 
shaped valley, surrounded by wild, bleak,, and dreary 
mountains, in the midst of the county of Derby, and 
about 160 miles north of London. 
3. HOT CARBONATED CHALYBEATE WATER. 
284. BATH WATER is a hot carbonated chalybeate. 
When first drazcn, it appears clear and colourless, nor does it 
afford any signs of briskness or effervescence. The temperature 
of the water drawn from the Kings Bath, which is that usually 
employed for drinking, is 116 of Fahrenheit, and that of the 
Cross Bath is 112. No odour whatever is perceptible from a 
glass of fresh water ; but from a large body of it the nose is qf- 
fec/ed by a slight degree, of pungency. W hen the water is hot 
from the pump, it Jills the mouth with, a strong chalybeate im- 
pression without any pungency, and accompanied with scarcely 
any kind of saline taste ; and, zchat is remarkable, as soon as 
the water cools, the chalybeate taste is entirely lost, and nothing 
but an extremely slight saline sensation remains upon the palate. 
The foreign contents of Bath water are sulphat of lime (192), 
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