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 flow from the rock in an minute; it is perfectly limpid, and on being boiled loses the odour of sulphur.

The contents in a wine-gallon are

Near the inn called the Shawn at the same place a spring of chalybeate water rises to the day, of which the analysis, according to Dr. Garnet, is as fellows.

On a moor a few miles distant from the same place another water strongly impregnated with mineral ingredients is met with. It is of a deep wine colour, and nauseous to the taste like ink; it appears to contain sulphate of iron and sulphate of alumina in large proportions.

Near Turret Burn, which runs into the North Tyne in the north-western part of Northumberland, a sulphuretted and a chalybeate spring were both detected bubbling up from under a peat moss by Mr. Joseph Fryer.

At Dukesfield, towards the south-west, a spring of limpid water holding sulphuretted hydrogene in solution has long been known, and another of the same description issues from the rocks in the bed of the Tees on the north side of the river about 9 miles above Barnaud Castle.

The beds which are found on the banks of the Tweed, from Dryburg towards the east, differ so much from the usual measures