tains of calcareous earth, combined with vitriolic acid in the form of selenite, 8 grains; of calcareous earth, combined with acidulous gas, 12 grains; of marine salt of magnesia, 5 grains; and of sea salt, 6 grains.

Acidulous gas, besides what is contained in the calcareous earth abovementioned, eight ounce measures. Dr. Carrick found a little difference in the proportions, and adds to the ingredients sulphate of soda, more generally known by Glauber's salts.

Little can be, therefore, expected from the mineral contents of this water. It has, however, been supposed useful in internal hemorrhages, immoderate discharge of the menses, old diarrhoeas, fluor albus, internal inflammations, spitting of blood. dysentery, consumption, dropsy, scurvy with heat, stone, gravel, strangury, habitual gout, atrophy, slow fever, scrophula, gleets, and a diabetes: in which last it is esteemed a specific and is allowed to be drank as freely as the thirst requires it. The sensible qualities of this water render any particular directions for its use

unnecessary.

The hotter months are the best for using it. In general it is drank in repeated daughts of half a pint, from a pint to two quarts a day.

Matlock waters are found at the place from whence they take their name, in the county of Derby, where there are a great number of warm springs, which, according to Dr. Short, acquire their heat by passing through a bed of lime, and what he calls croil stone. The water of the bath, and all the other tepid springs, is exceedingly clear, has no steam except in cold weather, and does not throw up bubbles; it is about a dram in the pint lighter than common

water.

A gallon of this water contains about 37 or 38 grains of solid matter: 12 or 13 grains of which are sea salt, with vitriolated magnesia, the rest calcareous earth, which after calcination, contained some particles attracted by the loadstone. This water seems, therefore, to be a light chalybeate of a tepid temperature, containing but a small portion of solid matter, and is used in the diseases for which Bristol waters have been recommended; externally for the gout, rheumatism, and other complaints where a tepid bath has been found ser

viceable: It is drank from one to four or five pints in the day,

(To be continued.)

THE PREDICTION FULFILLED.

(Continued.)

You may say what you please, parson,' said the old man who had given admittance to the stranger, and who now, after dismissing all the guests save the youth, joined the talkers, and seated himself on the settle by their side;' you may say what you please about madness and superstition; but I know Ruth Tudor was a fated woman, and the deed that was to be I believe she has done; ay, ay, her madness is conscience; and if the deep sea and jagged rocks could speak, they might tell us a tale of other things than that: but she is judged now; her only child is gone-her pretty Rachel. Poor Evan! he was her suitor ! ah, he little thought, two months ago, when he was preparing for her gay bridal, that her slight sickness would end thus; he does not deserve it; but for her-God forgive me if I do her wrong, but I think it is the hand of God, and it lies heavy, as it should.' And the greyhaired old man hobbled away, satisfied that in thus thinking he was shewing his zeal for virtue.

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Alas, that so white a head should acknowledge [so hard a heart!' said the pastor, Ruth is condemned, according to his system, for committing that which a mightier hand compelled her to do; how harsh and misjudging is age! But we must not speak so loud,' continued for see, the youth Evan is retiring for the night, and the miserable mother has thrown herself on the floor to sleep, the sole domestic is rocking on her stool, and therefore I will do the honours of this poor cottage to you. There is a chamber above this, containing the only bed in the hut; thither you may go and rest, for otherwise it will certainly be vacant to night; I shall find a bed in the village, and Evan sleeps near you with some of the guests in the barn. But, before I go, if my question be not unwelcome and intrusive, tell me who you are, and whither you are bound.'

'I was ever somewhat a subscriber to the old man's creed of fatalism,' said

the stranger, smiling and I believe I am more confirmed in it by the singular events of this day. My father was a man of a certain rank in society, but of selfish and disorderly habits. A course of extravagance and idleness was succeeded by difficulties and distress. Harassed by creditors, he was pained by their demands, and his selfishness was unable to endure the sufferings of his wife and children. Instead of exertion, he had recourse to flight, and left us to face the difficulties from which he shrunk. He was absent for years, while his family toiled and struggled with success. Suddenly we heard that he was concealed in this part of the coast; the cause which made that concealment necessary I forbear to mention; but he as suddenly disappeared from the eyes of men, though we could never trace him beyond this part of the country. I have always believed that I should one day find my father, and have lately, though with difficulty, prevailed upon my mother to allow me to make inquiries in this neighbourhood: but my search is at end to day, I believe that I have found my father. Roaming along the beach, I penetrated into several of those dark caverns of the rocks, which might well, by their rugged aspects, deter the idle from entering. Through the fissures of one I discovered in the interior, a light. Surprised, I penetrated to its concealment, and discovered a man sleeping on the ground. I advanced to awake him, and found but a fleshless skeleton, cased in tattered and decaying garments. He had probably met his death by accident, for exactly over the corpse I observed, at a terrific distance, the daylight, as if streaming down from an aperture above. Thus the wretched man must have fallen, but how long since, or who had discovered his body, and left the light which I beheld, I know not, though I cannot help cherishing a strong conviction that it was the body of Rhys Meredith that I saw.'.

'Who talks of Rhys Meredith,' said a stern voice near the coffin, and of the cave where the outcast rots? They turned quickly at the sound, and beheld Ruth Tudor standing up, as if she had been intently listening to the story. It

was I who spoke dame,' said the stranger gently, and my speech was of my father, of Rhys Meredith; I am Owen his son.'

Son! Owen Rhys!' said the bewildered Ruth, passing her hand over her forehead, as if to enable her to recover the combination of these names, ' and who art thou, that thus givest human ties to him who is no more of humanity? why speakest thou of living things as pertaining to the dead? Father! he is father to nought save sin, and murder is his only begotten!'

She advanced to the traveller as she spoke, and again caught a view of his face; again he saw the wild look of recognition, and an unearthly shriek followed the convulsive horror of her face. 'There, there!" she said, 'I knew it must be thyself; once before to-night have I beheld thee, yet what can thy coming bode? Back with thee, ruffian! for is not thy dark work done?'

'Let us leave her,' said the good' pastor, 'to the care of her attendant; do not continue to meet her gaze, your presence may increase, but cannot allay her malady; go up to your bed and

rest.'

He retired as he spoke; and Owen, in compliance with his wish, ascended the ruinous stairs which led to his chamber, after he had beheld Ruth Tudor quietly place herself in her seat at the open coffin's head, The room to which he mounted was not of the most cheering aspect, yet he felt that he had often slept soundly in a worse. It was a gloomy unfinished chamber, and the wind was whistling coldly and drearily through the uncovered rafters above his head. Like many of the cottages in that part of the country, it appeared to have grown old and ruinous before it had been finished; for the flooring was so crazy as scarcely to support the huge wooden bedstead, and in many instances the boards were entirely separated from each other, and in the centre, time, or the rot, had so completely devoured the larger half of one, that through the gaping aperture Owen had an entire command of the room and the party below, looking down immediately above the coffin. Ruth was in the same attitude as when he left her, and the servant girl was dozing by her side. Every thing being perfectly tranquil, Owen threw himself upon his hard couch, and endeavoured to compose himself to rest for the night, but this had become a task and one of no easy nature to surmount; his thoughts still wandered to the events

of the day, and he felt there was some strange connexion between the scene he had just witnessed, and the darker one of the secret cave. He was an imaginative man, and of a quick and feverish temperament, and he thought of Ruth Tudor's ravings, and the wretched skeleton of the rock, till he had worked out in his brain the chain of events that linked one consequence with the other; he grew restless and wretched, and amidst the tossings of impatient anxiety, fatigue overpowered him, and he sunk iato a perturbed and heated sleep. His slumber was broken by dreams that might well be the shadows of his waking reveries. He was alone (as in reality) upon his humble bed, when imagination brought to his ear the sound of many voices again singing the slow and monotonous psalm; it was interrupted by the outcries of some unseen things who attempted to enter his chamber, and, amid yells of fear and execrations of anger, bade him arise, and come forth, and aid; then the coffined form which laid so quietly below, stood by his side, and in beseeching accents, bade him arise and save her. In his sleep he attempted to spring up, but a horrid fear restrained him, a fear that he should be too late; then be crouched like a coward beneath his coverings, to hide from the reproaches of the spectre, while shouts of laughter and shrieks of agony were poured like a tempest around him; he sprung from his bed and awoke. It was some moments ere he could recover recollection, or shake off the horror which had seized upon his soul. He listened, and with infinite satisfaction, observed an unbroken silence throughout the house. He smiled at his own terrors, attributed them to the events of the day, or the presence of a corse, and determined not to look down into the lower room till he should be summoned thither in the morning. He walked to the casement, and looked abroad to the night; the clouds were many, black, and lowering, and the face of the sky looked angrily at the wind, and glared portentously upon the earth; the sleet was still falling; distant thunder announced the approach or departure of a storm, and Owen marked the clouds coming from afar towards him, laden with the rapid and destructive lightning; he shut the casement and returned towards the bed but the light from below

attracted his eye, and he could not pass the aperture without taking one glance at the party. (To be continued.)

Varieties.

A SALTED JEW.

A Jew dying in Spain, desired on his death bed to be carried to Jerusalem. There was a difficulty, however, how to get the body out of the kingdom without danger of discovery. It was at last determined to cut it into pieces, salt i, and put it into a barrel, directed to Leghorn. The merchant to whom it was directed, finding a deficiency in the weight, discovered a hole in the barrel, from which several pieces had been taken, and made his complaint. The captain offered to pay for the deficiency : the merchant insisted on the restitution

of the pieces. That is impossible,' said the captain, for they have been eaten and digested long ago.' The sailor who had committed the theft was then questioned; he was asked if it was good? He replied, that it was not bad.' Then, my good friend, said the merchant, I am sorry to tell you, that instead of salted pork, you have been eating a salted Jew!'

Aubrey gives the following quaint account of the pond in Lord Bacon's garden-The figures of the pond were thus; they were pitched at the bottomes with pebbles of severall colours, which were workt into severall figures, of as fishes, &c. which in his Lordship's time were plainly to be seen through the clear water, now overgrown with flags and rushes. If a poor bodie had brought his Lordship halfe a dozen pebbles of a curious colour, he would give them a shilling, so curious was he in perfecting his fish pond, which I guesse doe contain four acres.

TO CORRESPONDENTS.
E: Mackay's communication in our

next.

Erratum. In our last, p. 316, for 'new positions,' read new fashions. Printed and published by CowIE and STRANGE, 60, Paternoster-row and 24, Fetter-lane.

On the first sabbath day, in the year 1749, Mr Thomas Lilly, the son of a farmer in the parish of Kelso, in Roxburghshire, a promising young man, intended for the church of Scotland, and who then had studied a considerable time at school, happened to be at home keeping the house, with only a shepherd's boy, all the rest of the family. (excepting a maid-servant), being at sermon; the young student and the boy being seated by the fire, whilst the girl was gone to the well for some water, a -venerable old gentleman, clad in an antique garb, presented himself; and, after some little ceremony, desired the student to open the Bible which lay upon the table before him, and turn over to a

certain chapter and verse in the second book of Kings. The student did so and read: there is death in the pot.'

On this the old man, with much apparent agitation, pointed to the great family pot boiling on the fire, declaring that the maid had cast a great quantity of arsenic into it, with intent to poison the whole family, to the end she might rob the house of the hundred guineas, which she knew her master had taken for sheep and grain, which he had sold. Just as he was so saying, the maid came to the door, announcing her approach by the noise of the nails in her shoeheels. The old gentleman said to the student, remember my warning,' and instantly disappeared.

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The maid entered with a smiling countenance, emptied her pail, and returned to the well for a fresh supply. Meanwhile, young Lilly put some oatmeal into a wooden dish, skimmed the pot of the fat, and mixed it like what we call brose or croudy; and when the maid returned, he with the boy appeared busily employed in eating the mixture. 'Come, Peggy,' said the student, here is enough left for you; are you not fond of croudy?" She smiled, took up the dish, and, reaching a horn spoon, withdrew to the back room. The shepherd's dog followed her unseen by the boy; and the poor animal on the croudy being put down by the majd, fell a victim to his voracious appetite; for, before the return of the family from church, it was enormously swelled, and expired in great agony.

The student enjoined the boy to remain quite passive for the present; meantime he attempted to show his ingenuity in resolving the cause of the canine catastrophe into insanity, in order to keep the girl in countenance till a fit opportunity of discovering the plot should present itself.

Soon after, his father, mother, brothers, and sisters, with the other servants, returned from church, all hungering after the word, and wager to sit round the rustic board.

The table was instantly replenished with wooden bowls and trenchers, and a heap of barley bannocks graced the top. The kail or broth, infused with leeks or winter cabbages, was poured forth in plenty; and Peggy, with a prodigal hand, filled all the dishes with the homely dainties of Tiviotdale. The master began grace, and all hats and bonnets were instantly off. O Lord,' prayed the farmer, we have been hearing thy word from the mouth of thy aged servant, Mr. Ramsey; we have been alarmed by the awful famine in Samaria, and of death being in the pot!' Here the young scholar interrupted his father, by exclaiming, yes, Sir, there is death in the pot now here, as well as there was once in Israel. Touch not! taste not! See the dog ded by the poisoned pot!'

'What,' cried the farmer, have you been raising the devil by your conjura. tions? Is this the effect of your study, Sir?' 'No, father,' said the student, 'I pretend to no such arts of magic or

necromancy; but this day, as the boy can testify, I had a solemn warning from one, whom I take to be no demon, but a good angel. To him we all owe our lives. As to Peggy, according to his intimation, she has put poison into the pot, for the purpose of destroying Here the the family root and branch!' girl fell into a fit, from which being with some trouble recovered, she confessed the whole of her deadly design, and was suffered to withdraw from the family and her native country.

She

was soon after executed at Newcastleupon-Tyne for the murder of her bastard child, again making ample confession of the above diabolical design.

Mineral Waters.

No. III.

(Continued)

The following catalogue is intended to comprise the principal mineral waters of Great Britain, and some of the more important ones of other countries. We do not profess to furnish an account of every one, as it would occupy more space than we can allot for the purpose, and moreover, it would be quite impossible, as no doubt there are numbers yet undiscovered. Our readers will easily understand the properties of the various waters, by a reference to the preceding examination; for example:

Acton, a saline spring; by this we are to understand, that those waters are impregnated with natural alkaline and earthy salts only; and so on with the