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inimcnts of honour, which outlive the cofthefl fculpture, attrad 



panegyric without flattery, and veneration without envy. 



The patients, who defire to drink the water in the greatefl per- 

 fection, take their (land upon large flat ftones in the river-courfe, 

 within two or three feet of the rock, and receive it immediately 

 from the hand of the drawer. The mountain, called Carrion 

 Crow Ridge, in which it takes its fource, is one of the highell: in 

 this ifland, and appears from fome diftance below to have a fliarper 

 pike than moft others. The town of Bath is feated about a mile 

 and three quarters from the fpring, on a triangular flat, wa{hed on 

 three fides by the Sulphur, Ifland, and Plantain Garden rivers; io 

 that it is a perfeft peninfula, bounded, where it joins the main 

 land, with a range of hills, which gradually rife one above another, 

 till they reach the Blue Monntains. The three rivers unite their 

 flreams a little beyond the town, and continue their current to- 

 gether till they fall into the Tea. This low fituation makes the 

 town very liable to be incommoded by inundations, whenever thefe 

 rivers happen to be fwelled by the autumnal rains. They have 

 often endangered fome of the buildings ; and feldom retire into 

 their proper channels without committing depredation. In other 

 refpeds, the diflance from the fpring is attended with the happiefl 

 confequences to the patients, who ride on horfe-back to drink at it 

 twice a day, and promote the eflicacy of the water by joining fo 

 wholefome an exercife with it. The road which leads to the 

 IJDring is of a romantic appearance, being condudted along the fides 

 .of very Ikep mountains the whole way, whole projedtions and 

 gullies have not unaptly been compared to the folds or plaits of a 

 inan's coat. It is not in all parts of fufficient width for a wheel- 

 carriage to pafs, nor very fecure even for horfes, if they flnould be 

 ikittilh ; for here and there it over-hangs the river at a great ele- 

 vation ; and thefe precipices have no other fafeguard againft fuch 

 kind of accidents, than the trees wliich grow upon their face. 

 Among thefe mountains is great abundance of iron ore. The pre- 

 fence, indeed, of this metallic fubftance is, in the opinions of fome, 

 fufficiently evidenced by the quality of the waters iflliing from 

 them ; but it is not probable they will ever be explored for the 

 fake of obtaining it. 



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