Strathpeffer Spa : its climate and waters with observations historical, medical, and general, descriptive of the vicinity / by Fortescue Fox.

  • Fox, Fortescue.
Date:
1889
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Credit: Strathpeffer Spa : its climate and waters with observations historical, medical, and general, descriptive of the vicinity / by Fortescue Fox. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    they would get an appetite, a pack of good hounds, and plenty of game, goat whey, etc. Then there would be little occasion for soliciting a support to the enclosed Memorial Representation. However, lame as it is, and far short of what might have been said by a proper hand for writing upon that subject, I beg to have the opinion of the Board upon it. In consequence of these energetic representations, the Commissioners directed further investigations to be made and a report prepared. It was then discovered from geological examination, that water-bearing strata occurred in different parts of the valley, and that there were, not one but several powerful springs of Chalybeate and Sulphur water. Having in this manner been brought into notice as a Spa, Strathpeffer attracted the attention of medical men and others in England and Scotland. But travelling was then slow and difficult. Old men still alive remember the month's journey from London with the Lairds' coach. Comparatively few therefore ventured into Scotland for mineral waters, and Strathpeffer naturally became the Spa of the northern counties, from the West coast, Lewis, and the far north to Aberdeen- shire in the east. Great numbers, says a local writer in 1791, ''from the counties of Inverness and Sutherland and the western districts of Ross-shire, have resorted hither. Twenty years later, while the sulphur waters flowed
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