Writing in 1631, Dr. Jordan says: "The baths are bear-gardens, where both sexes bathe promiscuously, while the passers-by pelt them with dead dogs, cats, and pigs; and even human creatures are hurled over the rails into the water." It is not so bad as that now, but lodgings are still held at rates which might be advantageously tempered to the shorn.
I append the result of a chemical analysis I caused to be made of these incomparable Waters, that the fame of their virtues may no longer rest upon the inadequate basis of their observed effects.
One hundred parts of the water contain:
| Brandate of Sodium | 9.50 | parts. |
| Sulphuretted Hydrogen | 3.50 | " |
| Citrate of Magnesia | 15.00 | " |
| Calves'-foot Jelly | 10.00 | " |
| Protocarbonate of Brass | 11.00 | " |
| Nitric Acid | 7.50 | " |
| Devonshire Cream | 6.00 | " |
| Treaclate of Soap | 2.00 | " |
| Robur | 3.50 | " |
| Superheated Mustard | 11.50 | " |
| Frogs | 20.45 | " |
| Traces of Guano, Leprosy, Picallilly, | ||
| and Scotch Whiskey | .05 | " |
Temperature of the four baths, 117 degrees each—or 468 altogether.
THE FOLLOWING DORG.
Dad Petto, as everybody called him, had a dog, upon whom he lavished an amount of affection which, had it been disbursed in a proper quarter, would have been adequate to the sentimental needs of a dozen brace of lovers. The name of this dog was Jerusalem, but it might more properly have been Dan-to-Beersheba. He was not a fascinating dog to look at; you can buy a handsomer dog in any shop than this one. He had neither a graceful exterior nor an engaging address. On the contrary, his exceptional plainness had passed into a local proverb; and such was the inbred coarseness of his demeanour, that in the dark you might have thought him a politician.
If you will take two very bandy-legged curs, cut one off just abaft the shoulders, and the other immediately forward of the haunches, rejecting the fore-part of the first and the rear portion of the second, you will have the raw material for constructing a dog something like Dad Petto's. You have only to effect a junction between the accepted sections, and make the thing eat.
Had he been favoured with as many pairs of legs as a centipede, Jerusalem would not have differed materially from either of his race; but it was odd to see such a wealth of dog wedded to such a poverty of leg. He was so long that the most precocious pupil of the public schools could not have committed him to memory in a week.