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it was the same with that of Astrop. They have also a petrifying spring. At the Devizes, about 

 a quarter of a mile from the towne, a petrifying spring shewn me by D r . Merriweather, a physitian 

 there. At Bagshot, near Hungerford, is a chalybiate, dranke by some gentlemen with good successe. 



Mdm. In my journey to Oxford, comeing through Bagley-wood, on S*. Mark's day, 1695, I 

 discovered two chalybiate springs there, in the highway; which on May the 10 th I tryed with 

 powder ofgalles, and they give as black a tincture as ever I saw such waters: one may write with 

 it as legibly as with black lead. 



At the gate at Wotton Common, near Cumnor in Berkshire, is a spring which I have great 

 reason to believe is such another : and also at the foot of Shotover-hill, near the upping-stock, I am 

 confident by the clay, is such another spring. Deo gratias. 



Quaeres for the Tryall of Minerall Waters ; by the Honourable Sir William Petty, Kt. : 



1. How much heavier 'tis than brandy ? 



2. How much common water will extinguish its tast ? 



3. What quantity of salt upon its evaporation ? 



4. How much sugar, allum, vitriol, nitre, will dissolve in a pint of it ? 



5. Whether any animalcuke will breed in it, and in how long time ? 



6. Whether fish, viz. trout, eeles, &c. will live in it, and how long ? 



7. Whether 'twill hinder or promote the curdling of milk, and fermentation ? 



8. Whether soape will mingle with it ? 



9. Whether 'twill extract the dissolvable parts of herbes, rootes, seedes, &c. more or less than 

 other waters ; (i.e.) whether it be a more powerful menstruum ? 



10. How galles will change its colour ? 



11. How 'twill change the colour of syrup of violets? 



12. How it differs from other waters in receiving colours, cochineel, saffron, violets &c. ? 



13. How it boyles dry pease? 



14. How it colours fresh beefe, or other flesh in boyling ? 



15. How it washes hands, beards, linnen, &c. ? 



16. How it extracts mault in brewing? 



17. How it quenches thirst, with meat or otherwise? 



18. Whether it purges; in what quantity, time, and with what symptomes ? 



19. Whether it promotes urine, sweat, or sleep ? 



20. In what time it passeth, and how afterwards ? 



21. Whether it sharpens or flattens the appetite to meate? 



22. Whether it vomits, causes coughs, &c. ? 



23. Whether it swell the belly, legges ; and how, in what time, and quantity &c. ? 



24. How it affects sucking children, and (if tryed) foetus in the wombe ? 



25. Whether it damps or excites venerie ? 



26. How blood lett whilest the waters are dranke lookes, and how it changes ? 



27. In what degrees it purges, in different degrees of evaporation, and brewed? 



28. Whether it breakes away by eructation and downwards ? 



29. Whether it kills the asparagus in the urine ? 



30. What quantity may be taken of it in prime ? 



31. Whether a sprig of mint or willow growes equally as out of other waters? 



32. In what time they putrify and stink ? 



