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per end of a deep rupture in the earth vulgarly- 

 called Sulphur Gut, which is fo exceffive hot 

 (like that near the Devil's Coppers in St. Chrijio- 

 pher^) as to make us immediately feel it thorough 

 our Shoe Soals. And I muft farther aiTure you, 

 That two Do6lors (my particular acquaintance) 

 were fo curious as to bury fome Eggs about an 

 inch deep in that fpot for the fpace of three or four 

 minutes, in which fmall time they were full as 

 hard quite thorough, as boyling or roafting could 

 make them. 



33. At the foot of a declivity adjoining to the 

 fouth fide of Charles Town our Metropolis, we 

 have a little hot River called the Bath (fuppofed 

 to flow from the aforementioned Sulphur-ground, 

 which is not above three quarters of a mile high- 

 er up in the Country) that runs half a mile or 

 better before it loofes itfelf in the Sea-fands, I 

 knew a Negro Boy who was fent down from 

 Barbadoes to Nevis for that very purpofe (after 

 being twice falivated in vain) cured of a very bad 

 Leprofy by ufing it ; and indeed all dillempered 

 People both Whites and Blacks find great benefit 

 by it : The Salivations had caufed the Boy to 

 break out in running Sores or Ulcers all over from 

 head to foot, and they being added to the Leprofy, 

 made him a fad (rueful) fpedtacle; however, by- 

 drinking and wafhing three or four times a day, 

 for an hour at leaft each time, in the water of this 



o 4 River, 



