Remarks on the supply of water to the metropolis, with an account of the natural history of water in its simple and combined states, and of the chemical composition and medical uses of all the known mineral waters : being a guide to foreign and British watering places / by Michael Ryan.

Michael Ryan

Date:: 1828

Credit: Remarks on the supply of water to the metropolis, with an account of the natural history of water in its simple and combined states, and of the chemical composition and medical uses of all the known mineral waters : being a guide to foreign and British watering places / by Michael Ryan. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.

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$b ON THF. MitNEjRAlL WATEiiS ov IRELAND. —«=> CHAPTER I. The ]\Iineralogy of Ireland has been much cul- tivated and improved by the valuable inquiries of that learned and most excellent Institution, the Roya.l Dublin Society. It is also highly grati- fying that this extensive field of science is about to be further explored, by those patriotic indivi- duals, who recently formed themselves into a So- ciety called the Mining Company of Dublin. This part of the United Kingdom is said to rest on a bed of granite, and to abound with many va- luable minerals and metals. The siliceous genus, as the onyx, agate, jasper, garnet, and amethest; many species of quartz and crystal, together with quartoze sand for the manufacturing of glass, abound in this island. In many parts of the in- land counties, extensive and uniform beds of lime- stone and marble, form the under strata. The beautiful marble seen in the venerable mansions of antiquity, prove that our numerous quarries of this substance, were early wrought by our ancestors. On the mountain of Croughan in Wicklow, gold and silver have been found in great abundance; and this county as well as that of Kildare, Queen’s County, and Tipperary, contain immense beds of copper, lead, and iron ore. The County of Kil- c /$