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 sandstone beds are in a horizontal position, and are parallel to each other. It is the same red sandstone that prevails over the greater part of Worcestershire.

Of the Mineral Waters of the Malvern Hills.

§ 67. There is no river, and scarcely a brook of any consequence, that takes its rise in these hills, but throughout the whole extent there are several small springs, some of which are found to be mineralized. Malvern Wells have been long celebrated as a watering place, and still continue to be very much resorted to.

§ 68. The mineral waters of this place were first examined by Dr. Wall of Oxford, who published an account of them in 1756, and they have since that time been analyzed by Dr. Wilson of Worcester, whose treatise appeared in 1805. There are three different springs that have been examined; the Holy Well which is the most celebrated, situated at Malvern Wells; St. Ann's Well, and the Chalybeate in the neighbourhood of Great Malvern. I shall state the results obtained by Dr. Wilson, as his experiments were made at a more advanced period of chemical science; but he has only yet published the analyses of the Holy Well, and of St. Ann's Well.

§ 69. The Holy Well water afforded no other gaseous contents than atmospheric air. A gallon of it yielded 14,6109 grains of solid ingredients, which were found to consist of: