Does not this water, if we drink it, likewise corrode and injure the fine membranes of the stomach ? The Boston people, who constantly use hard water for all purposes of cookery and drink, certainly have bad complexions, sallow, dry, and hard looking ; and complaints of the stomach or dyspepsia are very common among them.* A Salem gentleman declared, that when his daughters, who frequently visited at Boston, passed two or three weeks at a time there, he could see a very material change in their complexions. At Salem there is plenty of soft water, and the ladies of that ancient town are famed for their beauty, which is chiefly owing (its superiority I

mean) to a peculiarly fair, delicate tincture of skin contrasted with the half petrified appearence of those who are obliged to drink hard water always, and often to wash in it." Such authority on this point we presume will not be disputed. Health, however, is no less promoted by the internal, than by the external use of water ; and it is to be hoped, that but a short period will elapse, before free baths will be provided at the public expense, for the use of the poor, as well as the public

generally. Daily ablution should be regarded as necessary as daily food or sleep. The advantages which soft water possesses over hard, in the thousand economical purposes of life, are too obvious to need particular remark. The lime contained in well water, renders it inapplicable to the purposes of brewing, tanning, washing,