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doubt, at the interceffion of the faint, for-' 

 given. 



The fweet-fcented mofs, growing plen- 

 tifully on the fides of this well, is nothing 

 more than Jungermanma afplenoides, fpleen- 

 wort Jungermannia. It is found in many 

 other fprings in the kingdom, and is alfo 

 occafionally to be met with by the road 

 fides, and in woods in moift places. The 

 fuppofed tincture of her blood upon the 

 flones at the bottom, is alfo a vegetable 

 production ; Byjfus jolitbus of Linnaeus, vio* 

 let-fmelling Byjjus. Mr. Grofe, in his An-^ 

 tiquities, fays, that a gentleman, who was 

 educated in this town, informed him that 

 he remembered a perfon being employed 

 to paint the ftones againft the day of the 

 commemoration of the faint, which is flill 

 obferved by the Roman Catholics on the 



3d of November.* 



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* Grofe's Antiquities, Vol. VII. p.^7 



Dr. 



