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and some smaller dwellings, situated in the midst of a wild romantic valley, called the Vale of Irthing, which here contracts itself into a deep glen, the impetuous river flowing between stupendous banks of fantastic rock, beautifully wooded, and pursu- ing a course of whimsical irregularity. The spring which attrafts the company to this sequestered and desolate spot, is near the upper house. We found it to be strongly impregnated with sulphur, but, contrary to the general character of waters com- bined with the hepatic gas, extremely agreeable to the palate. Its effects in cutaneous disorders are powerfully good. At a small distance on the moor is a chalybegate spring; and another at four miles distant, highly charge ; md vitriol

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