KNARESBOROUGH, a town in the west riding of Yorkshire in England, 109 miles from London, is an ancient borough by prescription, called by foreigners the Yorkshire Spa. It is almost encompassed by the river Nid, which issues from the bottom of Craven hills; and had a priory, with a castle, long since demolished, on a craggy rock, whence it took the name. The town is about three furlongs in length; and the parish is famous for four medicinal springs near each other, and yet of different qualities. 1. The sweet spaw, or vitriolic well, in Knaresborough forest, three miles from the town, which was discovered in 1620. 2. The stinking or sulphurous spaw, which is used only in bathing. 3. St Mungo's, a cold bath, four miles from the town. 4. The dropping well, which is in the town, and the most noted petrifying spring in England, so called by reason of its dropping from the spongy rock hanging over it. The ground which receives it, before it joins the well, is, for 12 yards long, become a solid rock. From the well it runs into the Nid, where the spring water has made a rock that stretches some yards into the river. The adjacent fields are noted for liquorice, and a soft yellow mud which is rich manure. The town is governed by a bailiff. Its baths are less frequented since Scarborough Spaw has been restored to. It has a good market and six fairs. Here is a stone bridge over the river, near one end of which is a cell dug out of the rock, and called St Robert's Chapel. The number of inhabitants in 1801 was 3388.