A topographical survey of the great road from London to Bath and Bristol. - With historical and descriptive accounts of the country, towns, villages, and gentlemen's seats on and adjacent to it... (14783144123)

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Title: A topographical survey of the great road from London to Bath and Bristol. : With historical and descriptive accounts of the country, towns, villages, and gentlemen's seats on and adjacent to it...
Year: 1792 (1790s)
Authors: Robertson, Archibald
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Publisher: London: : Printed for the author... and William Faden...
Contributing Library: Boston Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Boston Public Library



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fton, styled the Upper and Lower, whereassemblies and balls are held, and publicbreakfasts, &c. are given, in imitation ofthose of Bath, but on a smaller scale. At the western extremity of Clifton, near 182 SURVEY OF THE GREAT ROAD FROM the stupendous rock of St. Vincent, risesthe celebrated hot mineral spring, deno-minated the Bristol Hotwell.—The heat ofthe water, when immediately taken fromthe spring, raises Fahrenheits thermometerto seventy-six degrees; which having beenanalyzed by the ingenious Dr. Higgins, ofLondon, a Winchester gallon is found tocontain, dwts. grs. Of calcareous earth, combined withvitriolic acid, in the form of se-lenite - Of calcareous earth, combined withacidulous gas Of marine salt of magnesia Of sea salt - It also contains eight ounce measures ofacidulous gas, beyond the quantity retainedby the calcareous earth in the heat of boil-ing water, and two ounce measures of air, equal, if not superior to atmospheric air inpurity. 0 8* 1 12f 0 *i 0 <% 2 9
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LONDON TO BATH AND BRISTOL. 185 It has no animal, vegetable, or sulphu-reous particles; so that being void of theseeds of corruption, it receives no taintthrough length of time, or alteration ofclimate. The water of the Hotwell is perfectlypellucid, and abounding with air-bubbles,which are continually rising from the bot-tom to the surface, as if in a state of fer-mentation.—This water is found extremelyefficacious in consumptions, weakness of thelungs, and all cases attended with hecticfever and heat, and exceeds all other reme-dies in the cure of the diabetes, as well as inmany other disorders, as will appear fromthe several treatises written by Dr. Ran-dolph, Dr. Keir, and other authors, on thevirtues of the Bristol water. The formerof these gentlemen attributes its first repu-tation, to its efficacy in the stone and gravel. Close to the Hotwell House rises thestupendous rock of St. Vincent, overhang-ing the Avon in tremendous cliffs of pro-digious height; and on the opposite sid