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leveral times in an hour, and that vifibly enough ; for from high 
water to low water-mark he found it fbmewhat more than five 
inches ; and tho' when once it began to flow, it performed its flux 
and reflux in httle more than a minute's time, yet it was oblerved 
to ftand at its loweft ebb fometimes two or three minutes 5 fo 
that it ebbed and flowed by a watch about 16 times in an hour, 
and fometimes, as he had been told, twenty • as loon as the wa- 
ter in the well began to rife, he obferved a great many bubbles 
afcend from the bottom, but when the wa^er began to fall, the 
bubbling cealed immediately 5 this ebbing and flowing is oblerved 
to be very ccnftant both in winter and fummer 5 and it does not 
feem to receive any increafe by rain ^ it does not appear to have 
any communication with the {eSy nor is its water brackifh 5 the 
whole adjacent country is very hilly all along the coall, inlbmuch 
that from Srham to the top of the hill is about a mile and a 
haifj the well is about halfway up the hill, which hereabouts is 
lomewhat uneven and rugged, it iffues out at a fmall defcent, yet 
conliderably higher than the furface of the lea 3 the water does 
not leem to be impregnated with any mineral 5 its tafte is very 
fofc and pleafant, without any manner of roughnels 5 the country 
people ule it in fevers, as their ordinary diet-drink, with good fuc- 
cefs. 
I'kie true Cortex Winteranus^ hy "Dr. Hans Sloane. Phil. 
Tranf. N° 204. p. 922. 
CA P T. Winter one of the commanders of a fhip which failed 
round the world with Sir Francis 2)rake, brought into 
England from the ftreights of Magellan an aromatic bark^ which 
had been very beneficial to thole of his fliip, both ufed inftead 
of other fpices with their meat, and as a very powerful medicine 
againft the Icurvy; Clufius in his Exotics /. 4. ^. i. ^. 75. gives a 
figure and delcription of it, as he had it from fome that came 
over in that fhip, calling it Cortex IVimeramis, from the com- 
mander of the fhip, and the tree itfelf; Magellanica Aromatica 
arbor ib, p. 77. Dr. Sloane thinks he cannot reduce it to any of 
our fpecies of plants, lb well as to the "Periclymenmi, and there- 
fore he calls it, tho' it differ in many things from the honey- 
fuckle, "Periclymenum re5ium, foliis lauriniSy cortice acri arc- 
rnatico: This tree rifes to be taller and larger than an apple-tree, 
Ipreading very much both in root and branches 3 the twigs have 
on them leaves of a light-green colour on their upper fidef {land- 
ing on fcot-ftalks half an inch long, the leaves themfelves are an 
inch and a half in length, and an inch broad in the middle, 
where 
