An analysis of the Leamington spa, in Warwickshire; with remarks on its use, and medicinal qualities / [George Hume Weatherhead].

  • George Weatherhead
Date:
1820
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Credit: An analysis of the Leamington spa, in Warwickshire; with remarks on its use, and medicinal qualities / [George Hume Weatherhead]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    By comparing this series of strata with that of Cheshire, as described by Dr. Holland in the first volume of the Geological Transactions, and of Droitwich, near Worcester, by Mr. Horner in the second, I think it more than probable that they are productions of one and the same strati* fication. The sandstone becomes very superficial in many places: in the direction from Warwick to Coventry, the road is cut through it in many places to lessen the ascent; and on the road to Stratford upon Avon, it is to be seen equally near the surface. The exposition of it at Guy’s Cliff, forms one of the romantic objects which give interest to this delightful spot; and the cave wherein, the legend of the place tells us, Guy, the great Earl of Warwick, passed his hermitage, is hewn out of this rock. Here 1 may remark that, as the saline spring is never found till they have penetrated this stratum, it seems feasible that the water might be got at more easily and speedily, by making the bore in these places where the sandstone comes nearly to the surface, instead of digging, as is commonly done, through twenty, and sometimes thirty, feet of the super¬ strata of clav, &c. Sinkings, though made on the same level, and.
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