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ing virtue. Hagar, the mother of Ifhmael, addreffing herfelf to 

 God by a fountain in her diflrefs, and being vifited by an angel, 

 and receiving confolation, fhe called it, Beer-la-hai-roi, that is, tic 

 'well of him that liveth and feeth me, to perpetuate the memory of 

 his providential care over her*. Abraham entering into a league 

 or covenant with Abimeleck, mutually flrengthened and confirm- 

 ed with an oath by a fountain, lie called it Beer-JJjcba, i. e. the 

 "well of the oath, and by this well he planted a grove, and called there on 

 the name of the Lord, the ever lofting God f . 



The Roman feflival Juturnalia was inftituted in honour of a fa- 

 native fountain, called, Juturna, a juvando, near the river Nuini- 



Many fp rings and rivers were confecrated by the Romans for 

 their religious rites, for their luftrations at funerals and facri- 

 fices, and before they entered their Sacraria, or temples. Of this 

 kind was their Fans Blandufne \., and their Flumen C/itumni \\. And 

 of this kind, probably, is their well here at their flation of Car- 

 raiu-brough, called, 



The Roman well. It is between two Hoping fields, on the weft 

 fide of the ftation, jufl under it, to the fouth of their famous 

 wall, about 400 or 500 yards from the 251!! mile-ftone on the 

 military road ; fquare, and faced with freeftone, of hewn-work ; 



* Gen. v. xvii. 7, 13, 14. 

 t - xxi. v. 27, &c. 



J Nympha Decus Fluvtorum, Animo gratiflima noftra. VIRG. Jn. 1. xii. v. 205. 

 Queen of the fountains and {beams, and far above 

 The race of Latian nymphs in Juno's love. PITT. 



4. Hor. Od. 13. 1. 13. 



| Virg. Geo. 2. v. 146* 



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