count of and com pany. diverfions and company of the place. It is An aca fmall ftraggling village on a heath, two the place, miles from Knaresborough, which is thirteen the wells, miles from York, and 175 from London. The fulphur wells are three, on the north fide of the town, about 500 yards east of the bog. They rife out of a little dry hill. The fecond is a yard from the first, and the third is five yards and a half from the fecond. The water rifes into stone-bafons, which are each inclofed in a small neat building of stone and lime a yard fquare on the infides, and two yards high, covered over with thick flagftones laid fhelving. The foil out of which thefe fprings rife is, firft, corn-mould, then a marle lime-ftone, and a ftratum of plaister: the lime-stone is fo abraded by the falt in the water, that when dried, it swims: and where the water ftagnates between the bafons and the brook, the earth is ink black, and has a dry white fcum, which smells like fulphur, and burns with a blue flame. The water does likewife throw up much candied fea falts, that is, falts to which fulphur adheres, and the pigeons refort from all parts to pick them up. In moift or rainy weather, thefe waters fend forth a ftrong fmell at a distance, and before rain, they bubble up with an impetuous force; yet neither rain nor drought increases or decreases the fprings, From From the large quantities of fine flower of brimstone which thefe waters throw off, it is plain, that fulphur is the principal thing in them; but experiment likewife proves, that befides fulphur, the flinking well has vitriol, nitre, copper, and falt: Thefe lie in folutis principiis in earth from which the water comes, and may be feparated by operation: fome, I know, deny there is any, copper in these waters; but they do not confider that the glittering glebes of a gold colour found here, can be nothing else than glebes gilt with copper.. As to the difeafes wherein this ftrong fulphur-water is proper, it is good for every thing, except a confumption. For this recom1 mend the Scarborough purging-chalybeate bove all waters. But if, reader, you have obftructions in your liver and other viscera, and are tormented with vicious humours in your inteftines; if your bowels are full of worms, the afcarides, or the broad round worm, or the worms called the dog and the wolf, from their likeness to these animals; orif, from a venereal caufe, (the malady of many a priest and layman) you have an ulcer in the anus, or in the neck of your bladder, go to Harrogate; drink the flinking-water, live temperate, and you will be cured. For the fcurvy, that univerfal difeafe, it is better than all other medicines. It is excellent in the jaundice, 5 jaundice, though of many years ftanding. you the Four pints of water are enough for a patient, to be taken from half an hour to two hours after fun rifing, upon an empty ftomach. You should take fome preparatory medicine; and walk drinking the waters to warm the body a little, and make the paffage the eafier. Some people I have known drink their dofe in bed, and it does well enough: but exercife and the thin open air do better, and contribute not a little to the patient's recovery: and there is no finer frefher air in England than at this place. In fhort, these wells are the ftrongest fulphur-water in Great-Britain, and, from the fuperior ftrength of the impregnating fulphur, it does not lofe but retain the fulphureous fmell, even when exposed to a scalding, and almost a violent heat; and, in diftilling it, when three pints had been taken off from a gallon of it, the laft was as ftrong as the firft, and ftunk intolerably.. Make Some ad drinkers of waters. Make hafte then to Harrogate, if you are fick, and have money, and in all probability you will find the waters efficacious, unlefs thy distemper be a confumption, or in its nature incurable, which is the case of many, as death is the common fate of mankind. §. 2. But when you are there, let me vice to the advise you to exercife as much as you can Harrogate bear, without fatiguing yourfelf-and in the next place, to be regular in meats and drinks, and as temperate as poffible. Without these things, you will lofe the benefit of the waters. No good can be expected, if men will indulge during a course of drinking the spaw, and be not only exceffive in quantity, but indiscreet as to the quality, of meats and liquors. Some ob I have known fome worn-out hard drink, fervations ers come to the Wells for relief, and at the on Spaw advice to waters, and fame time increase by intemperance what the drink they had contracted by the fame measure. I ers in a have likewife feen fome in a diabetes drink mineral courfe. white wine; in a cachexy, ale; in the stone and gravel, claret. I have known a man in a dropfy, eat nothing but cooling, infipid, mucilaginous foods, and drink malt-drink plentifully:- —a man in a jaundice, eat nothing but flesh meat and claret:-in a scurvy, prefer the pungent, faline diet:-in obftinate obftructions, and a chronic hyppo, feed on thickning, thickning, hardning, and drying meats:and in a hectic, vomiting, and spitting of blood, chufe only fuch things as increase the blood's momentum and velocity. I have known fome gentlemen, who fat up late, never exercised, could not eat a dinner, and therefore would indulge in a flesh fupper. All these, and many other irregularities, have I known expect furprising effects from the waters, and when they received no benefit, say, there were no fanative principles in them. Unreasonable, unhappy men! Be temperate: regular: exercife: keep the paffions within. bounds: and you may expect very aftonishing cures; provided your bodies are not become irreparable, and no longer tenantable: that your juices are not to the laft degree glutinous and acrimonious: that the corrofiveness of your blood is not bringing on mortifications; nor inflammations, filling, dilating, and breaking your veffels into fuppuration and putrefactions. Then, live how you will, the waters can be of no use. You must pay the debt of nature by an incurable disease. Neither mineral waters, nor phyfic, can create and enliven new bodies, or make and adapt particular members to the old. But if you are only hurt a little, and the disease is curable, the waters will certainly be efficacious, and recover you, if you use mode rate |