178 LETTER VII. 



amended : In the mean while I deiign to conclude 

 this long Letter with the following Paragraph. 



- 34. In the month oi June in the year of our 

 Lord 1724, I went from Bu?^gh in the South 

 Marfio of LhicolnJJnre^ to pay a vifit to a Friend at 

 Louth a more confiderable Market Town in the 

 fame County ; and after we had taken a view of 

 their fpacious Church, and lofty Spire, which they 

 infift upon to be exaftly of the fame height with 

 Grantham Spire, as well as with the beautiful 

 Tower of Bof.on , my Friend walked along with 

 me to a Spring of clear and excellent Water, that 

 might be three yards wide and ankle deep, and 

 that iffued out at the foot of the Woulds there : 

 not far below which place, they made it into an 

 admirable Cold Bath. It was then a pretty quick 

 Stream, and would continue fuch all the Summer 

 feaforl. He told me, that the Townfmen won- 

 dered very much, to fee it dry in Winter^ and to 

 run fo fait in Summer ; But then they never once 

 confidered, what he and I agreed in, mz^ That 

 underground in thofe Would Hills, there muft be 

 large Cavities or Refervoirs of Water, which the 

 Winter Rains would ( fufficiently to anfwer that 

 end) fill before Summer came on, at which time 

 thofe fubterraneous Waters began to defcend, and 

 vent themfelves at the mouth of this Spring, juft 

 fo long as till the Refervoirs were emptied, and 

 that was at the approach of Winter. There is a 



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