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ately from the fea, and cover the falina's, or fill the lower ponds : but of thefe, they 



have a great variety ; and they afford them many conveniencies for making fait, if 

 le fcarcity, or value of that commodity had rendered it worth their labour. We 



alfo find fome brackifh fprings and rivulets in this Ifland, which feem to take their 

 faline qualities from their beds, or the peculiar ftate of the earth through which they 

 run ; thefe are fufficient to fatisfy us that there are fait mines in this place ; but 

 they are not yet difcovered, and probably, lie too deep to be of any fervice to the 

 publick in cafe they were known. 



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Such as are charged with fulphureous parti 



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There are many fources of th 



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but the moft 



arkable 



g them feem be thofe in St. Thomas's in the Eajl, Fere, and Portland. In 



firft of thefe parifhes, we find two 

 moft in efteem, and generally ufed 



y 



fiderable fprings, which are now 



the inhabitants 



of thefe is hot, the 



other cold : the hot fpring runs by many rills out of the fide of the rocky cleft th 



Confines the middle part of the Sulphu 



fouth 



ery hot at the fo 



Eail, as it runs towi 

 rally light, and plentifully charged with 



th 



latile particles, which appear to be but the vapours of the true mineral acid, linked 

 with a light fulphureous fleam j and thefe (lightly engaged in a calcarious bafe, feem 

 to conftitute thofe falino-fulphureous falts wherewith thefe waters are now known to 

 be principally charged j and on which alone thofe excellent qualities, for which they 

 are defervedly noted, mud depend. They are remarkably beneficial in all capillary 



and diforders of the breaft proceeding from weaknefs, or want of the 



all lentors and vifcidities proceeding from the flothful- 



m 





obftruct 



proper glandular fee 



nefs, . 



weaknefies. It reflores the appetite, and ufual action of the vifcera, invigorates th 



or 



of the folid fyftem 



confumpt 



d in nervous fpafms, and 



circulation, warms the juices, opens the fkin, and urinary paffages, ftrength 

 nerves, and feldom fails to procure an eafy deep at night 



the 



The cold fuph 

 loofe heavy fulph 



water is more grofs, and more abundantly charged wi 



whence both its bffenfive fmell, and inflammable fediment ; bu 



more effectual in all cutaneous diforders, and obftinate obftructions of the vifcera 



well 



fcurvy, and all the 



difpofitions of our j 



that 



require 



flrong lixivious diflolv 



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Of Sails. 



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falts of this Ifland are but few, and thefe the moft ufeful t but 



feldom manufactured by the inhabitants, who have them imported at a cheap 

 than they could be made within the colony, while labour is fo dear. 



They are as follows 



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Marina 

 Sea- fait 







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All the Salina's of this Ifland are lightly overfpread with this fait ; which may be 

 manufactured here in great quantities, and to great perfection, had labour been lefs 

 expenlive : It is an agreeable ftimulant and antifeptic. 



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Fontana. 





Spring water fait 





The 







