18 H.] Account of Lowthcr Castle^ Skc. 
patients who have been reduced by long 
residence in yvarni climates, by visce¬ 
ral obstructions, obstinate intermittents, 
chronic rheumatism, and the like, and 
where the ordinary tonics, both of the 
vegetable and mineral kingdoms, had 
failed to produce the desired effect, Jn 
such cases, provided the thoracic and 
abdominal viscera had not been mate¬ 
rially impaired, or, if they had been pre¬ 
viously diseased, the more important 
symptoms had been removed, the mine¬ 
ral wwiter never failed to produce the 
most speedy and most beneficial effects, 
such us be had not before observed in 
any other remedy, evinced by a rapid 
improvement in the patient^s counte¬ 
nance, spirits, and appetite, and ulti¬ 
mately by a permanent establishment of 
his health. 
The mode in which I have nsualiy ad¬ 
ministered this medicine, and which I 
believe in general has been adopted by 
others, has been in the first place 4o 
evacuate the patient^s bowels by a dose 
of rhubarb and magnesia, Epsom salts, 
or other mild aperient, in order' to re¬ 
move any vitiated bile, or other offending 
matter which may have been accumu¬ 
lated in t)ie intestinal canal * and then 
to begin the following merning after 
breakfast with about two"ounces or a 
small wine-glass full of the water, and 
this quantity repeated three time^ a day; 
nfter Continuing it for some, lime, this 
quantity may be increased to four ounces 
four times a day, making in the whole 
one pint in the four-and-twenty hours, 
(which has been the most that has ever 
been fourld necessary to prescribe in one 
day, even in those obstinate cases of 
nuermitting fever brought from Wal- 
cheren.) The first dfise may then be 
taken in the morning, fasting, and the 
subsequent doocs at the intermediate 
times of tffe day, so as not to interfere 
with tlie meals. Sometimes, in very de¬ 
licate and irritable stomachs, this water 
may produce nausea; and sometirnes, 
though rarely, inr>y exciie vomiting; 
those unpleasant effects are however ea¬ 
sily obviated by taking off the chill, 
which is best effected by immersing the 
glass containing jt in a vessel of w'arm 
water, or by adding to it a tea-spoonful 
of brandy, tincture of cardamoms, or 
.other aromatic tincture; and stiould sick¬ 
ness still ensue, it may be diluted by 
adding to it half its ffuantity of pure 
rain-water, previously boiled, and ai- 
|ovveci to settle. 
The altipdnous ph^ilybedte spring is^- 
sues from a cliff on tlic S.S.W. side of 
the Isle of Wight, immediately under 
St, Catherine’s down, in the parish of 
Ciiale, between the village of whicii and 
the village of Niton it is nearly equi¬ 
distant. .Its distance from the sea-shore 
is about cne hundred and fifty yards, 
and the elevation about one hundred and 
thirty feet above the level of the sea- 
The views from the spot are highly inte¬ 
resting, commanding the Under-cliff to 
the east, the British Channel to the 
south, the winding coast to the west, 
and, at encreasing distances, Freshwater- 
cliffs, tim Needles, St. Alban’s Head, 
and the Isle of Portland. 
As a more particular and detailed 
acepunt of this water will, I have every 
reason to believe, shortly appear from 
another and more able pen, I shall con¬ 
clude this hasty communication, and beg 
leave to subscribe myself, 
T. L. Waterworth, Surgeon, 
Newport, Isle of Wi^hty 
' ^epU 14 , 1811 . 
To the Editor of the Monthly Magazint^ 
SIR, 
FIAVE read the letters signed A 
Wanderer,” relative to the Lakes of 
Cumberland, with much interest and 
great pleasure; and have only to regret 
a writer possessing such an enchanting 
power of description, did not spend more 
time in a county possessing-so much 
sublime, magnificent, and romantic, 
scenery. As I made a tour of the Lakes 
in the autumn of 1803, I beg leave to 
attempt the delineation of some parts 
omitted by your correspondent, which 
should you judge worthy of insertion in 
the Monthly Magazine, is quite at your 
service. 
I arrived at Penrith on Thursday the 
29th of September, and in the evening 
rode to Lowther, the seat of the Earl of 
Lonsdale, where I found the superb man¬ 
sion, then erecting by the noble owner, 
under the direction of Mr. Smirk, archi¬ 
tect, in great forwardness. The first 
stone of this noble edifibe (Lowther 
Castle) w'as laid on the 29th of Decem¬ 
ber, 1806. The fronts (for there are 
two) are each of them SiO feet in length, 
and the breadth of the building of 140 
feet. Within this area are a number of 
spacious and magnificent apartments, 
such as can hardly be paralleletl in this 
kingdom. The grand staircase will ex¬ 
ceed an y thing of the kind that is to be met 
with any where. I was credibly informed 
the expeuce (including the furniture) 
