of the Mineral Waters.near it. Observations on the Fifth Exhibition of Paintings in Edinburgh......... 246 M'Intosh, and Neil Sutherland, for Robbery and Murder, on the morning of New Year's Day...... 249 Account of James Small, and of his Improvements in the construction of Agricultural Implements; by Sir John Sinclair .................... 260 Account of the present State of Li- terature in Iceland. From Sir G. S. Mackenzie's Travels............ 265 Account of the Introduction of Sir Harford Jones, British Envoy, to rier's Travels........................ 270 Amusements of the Persian Court.. From the same ................... 278 Persian Diplomacy. From the same 277 View of the Institution at Edinburgh tural Society ib. THE Scots Magazine, AND EDINBURGH LITERARY MISCELLANY, FOR ARRIL 1812. Account of Pitkeathly House, and of the Mineral Waters near it. ITKEATHLY HOUSE is situated about five miles from Perth, at a little distance from the road which leads from Perth to Edinburgh. It is chiefly remarkable for the mineral springs which are situated at a small distance from it. The period when these waters were discovered has not been ascertain ed; and even tradition says nothing in that respect. The first account of them that we find in print is contained in a paper by Dr Donald Munro, in the London Philosophical Transactions. It was read Jan. 23. 1772, and printed in the 62d Volume, from which we give the following extract "There are but few salt purging waters which have hitherto been discovered in Scotland. The Pitkeathly, situated about six miles from the town of Perth, is the one in most esteem, and the most frequented. been published on these waters, and I wished to know their particular nature and contents, I wrote to his Grace the Duke of Athole, whose seat at Dunkeld is within fifteen or sixteen miles of the wells, and begged the favour of him to ask some of the physical people in the neighbourhood, to examine these waters, and give me an account of them: and, in consequence thereof, his Grace was so obliging as to send a letter, from Dr Wood of Perth, giving the following description of them-and afterwards six bottles of the water, which arrived in spring 1771: A Table showing the Contents in a Wine Gallon Measure of each of the Mineral Waters of the estates of Pitkeathly and Dumbarny, by Mess. Stoddart and Mitchell, Druggists in Perth. From this analysis, it appears, that these mineral waters are of a similar composition to those of Cheltenham, so much resorted to of late by the fashionable world. Like the Cheltenham, they are ❝gentle in their operation, have an agreeable effect in relieving the stomach of crudities, procuring an appetite, and exhilarating the spirits, and, instead of weakening, tend remarkably to strengthen the constitution." The water is of a Cooling quality, and very efficacious in removing all superabundant heat from the blood, in which respect it has a considerable advantage over the Cheltenham, by containing no iron, which we have ascertained by repeated trials, with the most accurate tests-an advantage which medical people know well how to appreciate, and which accounts for the little injury that arises from the great quantities of this water sometimes taken by the inferior class of people, who resort, from all quarters, to these salutary springs. By those who resort merely for a relief from a sedentary or irregular mode of living, it should be taken merely as an alterative, in about the same quantities |