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and has either had a dome over it, or been walled round ; the 

 ilones now lying about it, nearly covered with water from the 

 conduit's being ftopt, anddemolifhed by the carcleflheCsor igno- 

 nnce of a plowman, as I am informed ; it is full up to the brim, 

 and overflowing, in the hotteft Cummer; and by that man's in- 

 difcretion, he that would fatisfy his curiofity to fee it, muft rifque 

 the wetting his feet, efpecially in winter, or in a rainy 1 



Our Northumberland-Saxons, in their Pagan unconverted (late, 

 had their confecrated lakes and rivers. Such was Haly-pike lake ; 

 and Cuch was the river Wan'*-beck t a contraction of Woden'trkeck, 

 from Woden, the Saxon Deity. 



Springs remarkable for their lapidefcent quality, converting 

 plants into ftone, and afluming their image and figure, are not 

 very plentiful with us. At Bedlington, is one culled, SpimeSi 

 well. 



On the north fide of the brook at Simonbur*, below the fchool- 

 houfe, is a water which has this property, attended with this 

 fingular circumftance, that its terrene Caks make a change in 

 fome plants, and not in others, though growing in a group to- 

 gether, Mo/es and Liverworts becoming ftony, and Primrojes and 

 Geraniums holding up their heads, and retaining their native 

 form and hue. The reaCon affigned for this phenomenon by a 

 learned naturalift is this : the former being deftitute of congenial 

 fait, readily admit into their pores adventitious ones j the other 

 being already furnimed with it, will admit of no heterogeneous 

 acceflion *. 



In Honeyclugh, near Chejlsrwood, below a fmall cateract, there are 

 two rocks in a manner formed of incruftations by the continual 



Dr. Plot's Staffbrdfliire. 



drip- 



