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It is much ufed for agues, the gravel, and other obflmctlons, 

 for which it is found by experience to be effectual. It is under 

 the brow of a hill, the fides and cover at top of unwrought frec- 

 flone ; of a triangular figure ; fhaded above with nut-bufhes, and 

 other brufliwood, through which is a cart-road ; the current to 

 the north-eaft, into the rivulet of Wark, within a {tone's call, 

 mufical with its murmurs on the flonc-pavement, and through 

 broken rocks ; the oppofite banks, covered with, wood, mufical 

 likewife in a fummer's evening with the cooing of turtles: the 

 Villa of Rvfe's Bower hard by, and in fight from it, on the brink 

 of lofty precipices j a fmall ftreamlet having a fall from one of 

 them into a large hollow, whofe fteep and rocky fides being 

 fliaded with various kinds of trees, the am, birch, tall elms, 

 and the quicken-tree, the white-thorn, and the verdent ivy, 

 make it look like a bower, of difficult accefs ; increafmg in 

 beauty by the fight of the rivulet of Wark falling from another 

 rock juft above, between a hanging bank of brufhwood, and 

 broken crags and cliffs, imaged by the water ; the receptacle or 

 bafon of water under it of a confiderable depth. 



A quarter of a mile above the romantic ruin of Staivard le Peel, 

 on the edge of the river Allen, is a fulphur-fpring, dedicated to 

 St. Mary, called the Haly-WclL It is in the Sinus of a floping 

 freeftone-rock, wherein are lodged large pellets of fulphur; 

 the aperture and fides tinged by it with a filvcry colour. 

 It is of a naufeous foetid tafte and fmell. Being fo near 

 the Allen, the floods often encroach upon it, and force it to 

 change its fituation in the reck, breaking out again in fome 

 other aperture. The fituation is extremely pleafant ; a bank of 

 tall oaks and other foreft-trees on both fides of the river ; an 

 Upright ftone-pillar by it, fit to reft a book on -, the river within 



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