262 HARROWGATE WATER. 
Brighton is a well-known market-town, situated ori 
the coast of Sussex, and about fifty-four miles south of 
London. The chalybeate spring is at Wick, on the 
declivity of a small eminence nearly a mile west of the 
town, and a quarter of a mile from the sea. A small 
but neat building has been erected immediately over 
the spot from which the water issues, and where it is 
received, a few feet under ground, into a basin of 
Portland stone. This reservoir contains only a few 
gallons of water, but it fills again almost as soon as it 
is emptied. 
The water is so hard as instantly to curdle soap. It 
is considered useful in cases of debility, indigestion, 
and such diseases for which chalybeate and tonic re- 
medies are required. The sea-bathing at Brighton is, 
in many cases, an additional and important advantage 
to those persons who use the chalybeate water. 
9. COLD SULPHUREOUS WATERS. 
298. HEPATIC, or SULPHUREOUS WATERS, are 
so strongly impregnated with sulphur, united either to hy- 
drogen (45), or to an alkali, or both, as thereby to acquire a 
very sensible smell and taste. They have the property of 
blacking silver and lead; and are immediately known by the 
smell, which is very fetid, and like that which arises from 
the scouring of a foul gun-barrel, or, as some persons suppose, 
like the smell of rotten eggs. 
The taste of these waters is peculiar, and rather sweetish. 
They constitute a drink which, at first, is very unpalatable, 
but which, by habit, is soon reconciled to the drinker. None 
of them will bear carriage to any distance. 
299. HARROTPGATE WATER is a cold sulphureous 
zvater, which has a very strong and fetid smell, like that of 
a damp rusty gun-barret. To the taste it is bitter, nauseous, 
and strongly saline. 
Its foreign contents are common salt, murlat of lime, muriat 
of magnesia, chalk, carbonat of magnesia, Epsom salt (199), 
carbonic acid gas, or fixed air (26), azotic gas, and sulphureted 
hydrogen gas. 
