Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Professional Letters From Europe, Written During the Summer of 1852
London Water. - The Thames river contains 16 grains of Carbonate of lime to every gallon, not to include the awfully disgusting production of of human beings on its banks. This population derives 26 tons of Carbonate of lime annually from the river in the shape of drink. The 18 varieties of animacules said to exist in the Mississippi water may be nutritious, but save me from the greasy filth of the Thames. I shall ever, after seeing this compound ?uid, be reconciled to the mud-holes of the West. Various efforts are being made to supply London with pure water. The best I believe is derived from New river. But all European water contains more or less lime, so far as my observation extends. The only good water I have drank was from the only spring found in the forest of Fontainbleau, and that in the old castle of Heidelberg - the latter was excellent.
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