A treatise on the Bath waters. Pt. I. / [Sir George Smith Gibbes].

  • George Smith Gibbes
Date:
1812
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Credit: A treatise on the Bath waters. Pt. I. / [Sir George Smith Gibbes]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    g Jf there be this difficulty in forming a gross judgement of the water which is used for the pur- poses of common life, it becomes a matter of much greater.attention to. ascertain, with nicety, the. proportioned composition, of those waters whose medicinal. qualities are the object. of re- search. Ol; aE The impragomionsl of. water are 4 he as vari- ous asthe substances which form the globe. It occasionally: flows fully saturated with some of the strongest mineral poisons; in the isle of An- glesey, the labour of the metallurgist is rewarded by extracting the SoPyeyS with which the water 1s enipuegnatert It would open a large field of 1 inquiry to trace the varieties of phenomena attendant on springs ; they vary according to the situation of: the. strata, and according to the. nature of the. substances of which the strata. are composed. Water in finding its level rises n-the vacuities of rocks until it. ob- tains an/‘outlet;: or proceeds to great distances, until those yacuities terminate on the surface of the earth... Water which has fallen. to great depths through inclined: strata may arise in seek- ing a level) atca great distance from the spot which received it from the clouds. Though moun- tains be elevated to such vast heights, their sum- nits are often.composed of materials which ex- isted at a distant period below. the stratified sur- face; hence the strata on the sides of such
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