'The Comtefs’s Bath, fa named after the lady of the
Count de Cifuentes, who is lord of the place, is clofe to
the river, but judicioufly built and remarkably folid,
to refill every impulfe of the ilream, and equally decorated
with every convenience and advantage.
The bath of the Pijcina is about four hundred paces
from the king’s bath, and has acquired this appellation!
from being chiefly made ufe of, by the poor, who are
moil fubjeil to cutaneous complaints, for. which pur-
pofe this bath is remarkably efficacious» A dwelling-
houfe is now building for the ufe of the bathers, with
every dillribution o f apartments and convenience, re-
quifite for a- place of this nature : alfq, for a greater em-
belliflnxient of the baths,, they have planted round them»
that beautiful and odoriferous tree font thither from the
royal botanic garden at Madrid, by the name of robiniat
pfoudo acacia. In Spanifh Jalfg aroma. (The falfo. acacia.);
Dr. Ortega, after referring us to Macquer, and other
eminent chemiils, who all agree, that the analyfis o f
waters, is the moil difficult operation of chemiilry, as-
it tends to difeover that union, which- nature by flow
and fecret ileps, forms in water, and other fubilances,.
in its moil occult and abitrufo motions ; proceeds, to his-
analyfis o f the waters of Trillo, after fom-e flriclures
and criticifms on the writings o f Dr. Limon Montero,.
on the mineral waters of S-pain, publiihed at the clofe of
the
the lail century, intitled “ Efpejo Criilalino de todas las
Aguas Minerales de Efpana.” And after denying them
any nitrous, aluminous* or fulphureous qualities, as
aiforted by Dr. Limon, he clofos his analyfis with the
following corollary :
“ That thefe waters participate of five fubilances, two
volatile, and three fixed ; viz. a phlogiilic vapour,
extremely anodyne, penetrating, and friendly to the
nervous fyilem ; of a moderate quantity of gas, calcareous
earth, common fait, and folenetic fa it; and
that to each pound o f water of fixteen ounces, one
may calculate twenty-five grains and an half, of fixed
principle. This computation was made on a confidera-
ble evaporation of water, of about a quintal (a), which
was judged to be the bell method, as Ids liable to er-
rour, than thofo experiments with final! quantities. It
was alfo confidered, that of the twenty-five grains and an
half, o f fixed principle, correfponding to each pound of
mineral water, near fourteen grains are common fait,
aboutj three of folenetic fait, and about eight and an
half, of ahforbent earth ; which for greater exactnefs we
fli-allexprefs in this manner;
13: J jl grains Common fait,
2 grains folenetic fait.
8 .-¿g grains- abforbent earth.
(a) A Spaniiili quintal 97 pound Engliffiu.
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