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waters in all probability might receive their tinctures from the 

 fame Minerals, and that their difference might only lye in the 

 diftances they have from the Mineral bed, or more Colanders the 

 one may pafs through than the other. Agricola obferves, that 

 the water at Steurewald fmeW'mg like ours, much like rotten eggs, 

 not only comes forth ofzMarble Quarry, but that the belchings 

 of fuch as drink it falling, give alfo the odour of brayed Mar- 

 hie. Whether ours have either fuch a paflage or effeft, I muft 

 confefs I cannot inform the Reader ; my Purfe not affording me 

 to try the one, nor my Stomach the other : However, I could 

 wifh it had not been ftop'd up, as I hear it is fince my being 

 there, not only for the ufe it might have, but that Perfons better 

 qualified than I, might have made the Experiments. 



60. Of Vitriolate and Ferrugineous firings ,there are alfo plen- 

 ty in this County, one at Nether -Worton, and another at North- 

 Wefton *, within lefs than a Bolts- fhot of each of their Churches ; 

 both of thefe, befide their tinging with galls, let fall a fediment 

 of a rufly colour ; only with this difference, that Nether -Worton 

 fpringismuch the quicker and clearer, though I doubt not the 

 other might be very well amended, were but little charge be* 

 flowed on it. - ;. 



6 1 . At Shipton under Which-wood there is another of thefe, at 

 an Inn there whofe fign is the Red-horfe, but fo weakly impregna- 

 ted with the Mineral, that it fcarce tinges fenfibly with the powder 

 of galls, yet lays down the rufly fediment in as great quantities 

 as any of the reft ; and I have met with fome at other places that 

 have plentifully enough yielded this, which by no means could 

 ever be brought to confefs any thing of Vitriol, which has begot- 

 ten a ftrong fufpition in me, that this rufly tMure may probably 

 be the effluvium of fome other Body, different from, and not of 

 the chaly beat kind: for were it fo, I cannot imagin but the fait 

 of Mars muft needs be difcovered. However, herein 1 will 

 not bepofitive, but propound it only as the fubjeft of a feverer 

 refearch. 



62. And of thefe I was told of a very odd one in the Parifti 

 of Heddingtoh, near a place called the Wyke (I think) now ftop'd 

 up, that in the wintertime would flrike with galls, but not in 

 the fummer : whereof may be given this very eafie reafon ' that 



* Ifiundanoiber price, near Whites-Oak in tie Pa>ifl: of North-Leigh. 



during 



