MOFFAT, a village in the shire of Annandale, thirty-six miles south-west of Edinburgh; famous for its mineral wells, one of which is used for bathing, and the water of the other is taken inwardly. These waters are of great service in gripings of the guts, colics, and pains in the stomach. Those who are troubled with obstructions, rheumatic pains, and aches, find great relief both from bathing and drinking; nor is this water a less sovereign remedy in scrofulous cases, and the king's evil. These wells, in the opinion of Dr Plummer, professor of medicine in the university of Edinburgh, owe their virtues to a sulphureous principle.