62 A TOUR ROUND NORTH WALES. 



The Devotees of the faint were formerly 

 very numerous, and the well was fo noted 

 that a crowned head of the laft age digni- 

 fied the place with a viiit, but of late years 

 they have much fallen off; however, if I 

 may judge from feven crutches and two 

 hand barrows ftuck amongft the gothic or- 

 naments of the roof, I mould fuppofe the 

 well was not yet entirely forfaken. Indeed 

 the fanative properties of this water, in com- 

 mon with thofe of cold baths in general, 

 are not to be difputed, but blindly to at- 

 tribute to the interceffion of a faint thofe 

 things which from the common courfe of 

 nature may be accounted for, feems only 

 worthy the ages of ignorance and fuperfli- 

 tion. 



The quantity of water thrown up here is 

 really furprizing, this upon an accurate cal- 

 culation is found to be not lefs than eighty- 

 four bog/beads every minute. The well 

 has never been known to freeze, and 



fcarcely 



