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18 Fas and Remarks.{Júly

Tt appears at the aperture of the ſpring, like a hole, which has been dug in the ice for the purpoſe of watering cattle during a hard frozen ſeaſon; yet.it is of a whiter caf, reſembling cam- phire. f M

The riſing: of this chryſtallized cone to three or four feet high is eaſily‘accounted for upon the fountain principle, as the bub- bling in its‘emiſhon, leaves a tube in the centre through which the water paſſes, and neceſlarily pours over in ſucceſlion, ſoe as to chryftallize broadeſt at its baſe,‘until a conic maſs is formed.

Tt 1s a proverb at this place, that‘“ the air of Aranjuez will kill a man, but will not put out a candle:’” I have not, however, been able to ſet the ſpring on fire, or its vapour, although I have tried to do ſo with a candle.

The country people there, wear a kind of leathern doublet (I am told) for their protedtion againſt the ſaline vapour, with which the air 1s impregnated, I have obſerved a ſimilar pre- caution in the dreſs of the fhepherds, who wear ſheep ſkin clothes with-the wool on,..that they may be better enabled to ſhare the fare of their flocks, and to ſleep by them in the open plain, with- out perſonal injury.*

So far as my remarks have extended upon my own feelings, I do not remember to bave experienced ſo ſudden, ſo accute, and ſuch continual changes in my ſenſations, as at Aranjuez. I was aMiéted all over with rheumatic pains in a tranfient ſtate,-and whenſover IT had been into the ſubterranecous paſſage in the moun- tain T was ſure to be ſick all that night, and the bed clothes became highly charged with chat kind of human eMuvia which Dodor Franklin bas dticribed in bis“ way to procure pleaſant dreams.’‘This part of the diſdgreeable ſenſation, however, went of by the application of a ſimilar remedy to that which Door Franklin has preſcribed.

The mofſt uſual complaint at this place, is.-a very ſingular kind of cholic, which afffed@s the patient about the belly, loins, and kidneys chiefly, and is ſaid frequently to produce death.

The faline /pring at Aranjuez is in the ſide of the mountain, about half a milé above the town, near the right hand road up the Calle’ Regna, from whence it may be ſeen; but the canal which brings water to the gardens, muft be croſſed to get at it in this route.

It does not appear to be of the ſame quality wich the nitrous impregnation in the Kking?s tunnel, and the ſtones about the plâce loſe their ſaltiſh taſte, through long expolure to the aQion of the atmoſphere. The trace of the hoary nitrous impreſſion, like a white froſt, extends, nevertheleſs, thewhole diſtance be- tween thé two places, and fro/t#many-of the herbs and plants, as 1f they had been in the hands of the. confeétioner. The fa- line of the /pring appears to be of a medicinal nature, Tuch as

rlauber or Epſom ſalts, rather than reſembling either common