OF'THE WATERS. i$ 



fhort mile fouth from Eglingham. It is a fmall, but pretty area 

 of water ; an abundance of that fragrant fhrub, the Sweet Gaul 

 or Dutch Myrtle on its banks. Thefe lakes are all well ftored with 

 pike and perch, and fome of them with dace and roach ; the 

 largeft perch in Crag-lake. 



Ourfanative and confecrated fprings are numerous. The fpring 

 of higheft medical fame at prefent, and moft frequented, is one 

 between Learmoth and Cornhill. It is commonly called, 



Cornhill-Well. It is of a ferruginous tafte, not unpleafant. The 

 fides and bottom are coated with yellow ochre, the martial earth, 

 the Refiduum or ruft of iron. It is a powerful abforbent and dif- 

 folvent, as appears by the tinctures it gives with the following 

 drugs. With powder of galls, an aftringent, it yields a deep 

 purple ; with fyrup of violets, a grafs-green ; with oil of tartar 

 per Deliquium, or with fpirit of fal ammoniac, volatile alcalies, a 

 milk-white. Spirit of nitre, an acid faline liquor, makes no 

 change in it. Experience has proved it excellent for curing in- 

 veterate, ftubborn fcurvies, and the gravel. A cold bath is erected 

 near it, at the expence of Henry Calling-wood, of Cornhil/, Efq; neat, 

 and cafed with lead, filled and emptied by turning a cock. It is 

 in a fine healthy country, by the rich and fertile haugh or vale of 

 Wark, and the beautiful falmon-ftreams of the 



Tweed, the faireft Caledonian Flood *. 



At Tweed-mouth, is a facred fpring nearly allied to it in virtue, 

 and of late much reforted to for the fame complaints. It is 

 called our Lady's well, being dedicated to St. Mary. 



* Brown's Pifcat. Eclog. p. 98. 



A mile 



