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ferves them as pitch and tarre in Spaine. When I failed 

 intonewS/w/wby thecoaftof/Vw, the Pilot fhewed 

 me an Hand, which they call the He of Wolves, where - 

 there is another foumaine or pit ofCtppey or pitch, with 

 the which they anoint their tackling. There are other 

 foijjuaines and fprings of Goultran roz.cn , which the 

 Pilot (an excellent man in his charge,) tolde me he had 

 feene , and that fometimes failing that waies 3 being fb 

 farre into the fea, as he had loft the fight of land,. yet 

 did he know by the fmell of the Cappcy , where he was, 

 as well as if he had knowne the land , fuck is the favour 

 that iffues continually from that fountaine. At the 

 baths, -which they call the baths vflngua , there is a 

 courfe of water, which comes forth all hoteandboi- 

 ling^and ioyning vnto it, there is another whofe water 

 is as cold as ice . The Ingua was accuftomed to temper 

 the one with the other; & it is a wonderfull thing to fee 

 fprings of fo contrarie qualities 5 fb neere one to the o- 

 ther.There are an infinit number of other hote fprings, 

 fpccially in the Province of Ckarcas,in the water where 

 of, you cannot indure.ro hold your hand, the fpace of 

 an Ave Marians I have feene tried by wager. In a farme 

 neere to C#/?0Jprings a fountain of falt,which as it runs 

 turns into fait, very white & exceeding good, the which 

 (if it were in another countiie) were no fmall riches,yet 

 they make very fmallaccoumpt thereof, for the ftore 

 they have there. The waters which runne in Guay/iqucl^ 

 whichisinF<?r^, almoft vnder the Equinodliall line, 

 are held to be healthfull fortheFrenchdifeafe, ando- 

 ther fuch like , fo as-they come from many places farre 

 off to be cured. And they fay the caufe thereof is, for 

 that in that Countrie there is great aboundance of 

 rootes, which they call SdlepAreillc, the vertue and ope 

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