In 1802 a surgeon named John Bliss published a treatise, in which, without success, he endeavoured once more to awaken an interest in the medicinal properties of the Well. Mr. Keates, consulting chemist to the Metropolitan Board of Works, in recent times stated that it was a distinctly chalybeate water containing sufficient iron to render it capable of producing marked therapeutic effects. It was extremely pure, and in general character, though with a larger proportion of iron, resembled that of Tunbridge Wells.[196] [Dodsley’s _London_ (1761); _Ambulator_, 1774; Kearsley’s _Strangers’ Guide_ (1793?); Walford, v. 467, ff.; Thorne’s _Environs of London_ (1876), 281; Sir Gilbert Scott’s _Proposed Destruction of the Well Walk_ (Hampstead, 1879), with plan of Well Walk; Park’s _Hampstead_; Baines’s _Hampstead_.] VIEWS. 1. The Pump-room, Well Walk (_i.e._ Great Room), since, the Episcopal Chapel, in Baines’s _Hampstead_, from a drawing by Blanche Cowper Baines, after E. H. Dixon. 2. The old Well Walk, Hampstead, about 1750 (Walford, v. 463). 3. A view of “Ye Long Room at Hampstead from the Heath.” Chatelain del. et sculp. 1752 (W. Coll.). 4. Well Walk, engraving in Howitt’s _Northern Heights_, from a photograph. 5. Well Walk in 1870 in Baines’s _Hampstead_, from a sketch by Walter Field. THE SPANIARDS The old Spaniards inn, still standing on the north side of the road between the upper and lower Heath of Hampstead, deserves a brief mention, seeing that about the middle of the eighteenth century or earlier, it had attached to it a curious garden laid out by one William Staples, who was probably the keeper of the inn.[197] A contemporary account describes how “out of a wild and thorny wood full of hills, valleys, and sandpits,” the ingenious Mr. Staples “hath now made pleasant grass and gravel walks, with a mount, from the elevation whereof the beholder hath a prospect of Hanslope steeple in Northamptonshire, within eight miles of Northampton; of Langdon hill, in Essex, full sixty miles east,” and of other eminences, the visibility of which was perhaps less mythical. The walks and plats were ornamented with a number of curious devices picked out with pebble stones of variegated colours. There were over forty of these quaint designs, such as the sun in its glory, the twelve signs of the Zodiac, the Tower of London, the grand colossus of Rhodes, the pathway of all the planets, the spire of Salisbury, Adam and Eve, the shield of David, the Egyptian pyramids, and an Egyptian sphinx: an odd association of things earthly and celestial.