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the infectious mafs, great part of the waters could not timely 

 pafs away, but ftagnating in the lower Meddows, could not but 

 increafe the noxious putrid fleams. But the former being long 

 fince remedyed by the care of the Vniverfity, and the latter by the 

 piety and charge of Richard Fox Bifhop of fVinchefier , and Found- 

 er of C.C. C.Oxon. who in the year 15 17. cleanfed the Rivers, 

 and cut more Trenches for the Waters free paflage h ; the Town 

 hath ever fince continued in a healthful condition ; though I can- 

 not but believe, but were there yet more Trenches cut in fome 

 of the Meddows, the .Air might be fomwhat better'd ftill, efpe- 

 cially during the Winter feafon, when I fear fomtimes Floods 

 ftay a little too long-, and that not only near Oxford, but in Ot" 

 moor ; and all along the Ifis from EnJJmm to North-moor, Shiford, 

 Chimly, and Rotcot, which brings me again to the general confide- 

 ration of the Waters as well of the whole County as City. 



12. That the healthinefs of Waters Confifts in their due impre- 

 gnation With Salts and Sulphurs, and their continuance fo, in 

 theif continual motion, is indifputably evinced from the ftinking 

 evaporations of them upon any ftagnation* Now that the Rivers 

 here abound with thefc, will be altogether as manifeft as that 

 they ton, if we confider but the Springs they receive and Earths 

 they wafri. The Ifis, 'tis true, till it comes to New-bridge, re- 

 ceives not (that I find) any eminently fait or fulphureou* waters ; 

 but there it admits the nitrous Windrufh, fo well impregnated with 

 that abfterfive fait, that no place yields Blanketing fo notorioufly 

 white, as is made ztWitney, a Mercat Town on that River, and 

 upon this account the moft eminent in England for that kind of 

 Trade \ though I am not ignorant, that fome add another caufe 

 joyntly contributing with the afore-mentioned, to the excellency 

 of thefe Blankets ; of which more at large when I come to treat 

 of Arts. 



13. Som what lower, zboutCafiirigton, it receives the Even* 

 lode, a River whofe Banks, efpecially near the Fountain heads, 

 are very well faturatcd with both the Minerals : witnefs the wa- 

 ters that rife a little above Sir Thomas Pennyfton's, in the Parifh of 

 Cornwell, from a fort of Earth that may well pafs for a Marie ; 

 and the brinifh Bog near Churchill-xm\\, which though upon the 

 furfaceof the ground feems to have no communication with the 



h Hijl. & Ajitiq. Univerf Oxon. Lii.i.pag. i+j. 



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