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Murk be-the fele enure, that the waar receives ali10. .1!
tore froseigalls ; linCe, after they art precipitate,*
alit that-quality, which they notwithflanding net=
Oven other they*re (aparatcri from the water. TIA, 1

precipitantn of the ochrous pirtf of she iwaser -a=

the only vilible effedls that I could perceive to follow
from the affnion of the ol. tart is. d. I remember
indeed, whcn I wai at Moffat, I faw the manna,*
of En. fliorainglis experiments upon this mina*
weer ; which appear= -to -be very 1CCuratt Ala
which Lunderlland are ince printed, in a colonic
lately publiflad by the Philofophical Society at Edin-
burgh. Amongd there I obarved one, which I
thought fo very remarkable, that I particularly ad.
vetted to it. -It was the effeas of the affulion of el.
tamp. d. to the Watir, producing in it clouds, or
a coagulation of a green or grafs-green colour. I
think their were the words ; and I own I was loin.
ahing furprifed at them. A folution of vitriol=
Mattis, mixed with this alkaline oil, does indeed
produce a green cougulum : but I could (can=
think, that this, or any other chalybeat water, con-
tained fo large a proportion of that vitriol. as to it
fufficient to produce theme effeas, when !confide-red,
that fo many writers, which I had fan, upon da
fubjea, have all failed in their attempts of <nothing
a confpicuous martial vitriol from loch mineral wa-
ters. I had tried this experiment upon four or ne
dialybeat fprings in Scotland, and likewife upon the
Spa and Pyrniont waters, which had been well pre-
ferved ; but there never refill= Inv inch effcas =al
the mixture of thefe with oil of tartar, as are related
in the above experiment All the altennion it pre-
7 duad

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