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frequented by pilgrims. It is faid then to have had as many 

 Heps down to it, as there are articles in the creed. 



Below the garden of William Sivinburni of Long Witton, Efq; on 

 the margin of the Wansbeck^ to the north-eaft, is a winding path 

 through a wood of fine young oaks, leading to three lacred 

 medical fountains, called Thur/ton-Wells. They ifliie out of the 

 bottom of a high ridge of rocks of coarfe rag-ilone. The 

 weftern one is the largeft and neatefl ; fo full of yellow-ochre, 

 both at the bottom, and by the adit, that it may be taken up 

 with one's hand ; under it a vitrioline fediment of a bluifh. grey. 

 It has been found of great fervice in the cure of fore eyes, of 

 obflructions, of the fcurvy, and agues. 



Under the brow of a hill at Eaft Unthank, on the banks of South 

 Tyne, is a medical fpring of fimilar virtues ; the martial earth, 

 both brown and yellow, copious on the ftones and herbage by 

 it. Experience, the beft teft of the nature of any fpring, has 

 proved it to be an excellent remedy for peftoral complaints ; 

 giving appetite, and promoting perfpiration ; alfo good for 

 joint-tumours, and for agues ; curing an ague, even when the 

 famous Analeptic, the Cortex Peruviana, has failed. A well like 

 this, and thofe at Thurjton, a fpecrfic for agues, is defcribed by 

 Dr. Scipio de Moulinf at Canterbury *. 



We have a fpring at ARon, near Blanchland, little inferior in 

 medical virtues to the Unthank-fpring, efpecially as a pedtoral, in 

 removing obftructions, and reftoring appetite. 



Among the lead-mines, at ^lien-Heads, is a medical fpring, 

 ufed with fuccefs for fcorbutic fajculencies and the gravel. It 



* Pb. Tr. No. 312. 

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