An account of Peterhead : its mineral well, air, and neighbourhood / By William Laing.

  • Laing, William
Date:
1793
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Credit: An account of Peterhead : its mineral well, air, and neighbourhood / By William Laing. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    fpent a good deal of time in endeavouring to make a cot red analyfis of the water; and though the fuccefs has not been complete, yet it has been fufficient to point out its nature and probable effects. I propofe therefore to give an account of the mineral water of Peterhead, of the diforders to which it is adap- ted, and of the town itfelf, its air, and neighbourhood. Sed. i. Of the filiation of the well, and of fame enter- nal circumftances. HE town of Peterhead lies in latitude 57° 31' north, near the Buchan-nefs, and in the greatefl Eaft longitude of any land in Scotland. The mineral well, which from its virtues has long obtained, from the common people, the name of the Wine-well, is fituated at the fouth-eafl fide of the town, among fome rocks, on the fea fide., and about ten feet above the higheft flowings of the tide. In the greatefl cold of winter the water in this well has not been obferved to fink the mer- cury in Fahrenheit’s thermometer below 42 0 ; nor in the greatefl heat of fummer to raife it above 540: there- fore the fpring feems to lie a confiderable depth below the furface of the earth. The foil in the neighbour- hood of the well, and for a confiderable extent a- long the coafl on the fouth fide of it, is very full of a brownifh ore of iron : all the water iffuing from that part of the coafl has a brown colour and an inky tafle: there is no kind of flone found near Peterhead, except granite of a reddifli tinge, evidently from iron in its CHAPTER I of the mineral water of peterhead. com-
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