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ley, within two miles and a half of these wells, which was consi- 

 dered the most magnificent structure in the county. 



The above Wells, whose properties are thus enumerated by Plot, 

 he terms sulphureous oleagenous waters. He then proceeds to give 

 an account of otaer Sulphur Waters, which, he says, are at many 

 places in this county, though not so clear and well-concocted as 

 these : being generally thick, of a bluish colour, and emitting un- 

 pleasant fetid odours. Such as that at 



TATENHiL,on the highway-side near the pound, which in the sum- 

 mer-time, if undisturbed by fowl, has been observed to lay down a 

 sediment almost of all sorts of colours, and might possibly have 

 the same use, that other stinking spaws have, were it but kept 

 clean. And so might that stinking water, which crosses 



WATLING-STREET way, not far from Horsebrook, and another 

 of this kind betwixt 



WILLENHALL and BENTLY, could it be kept from a mixture 

 with other water. There is another of these in a watery lane not 

 far from 



ECCLESHALL, and another was said to be near 



HARTLEY GREEN, besides that, which also petrifyes, between 



SANDON and GAYTON. And there is another at 



BUTTERTON, in the parish of Mathfield by How-brook side, 

 which, like the baths of Banca in Hungary, will tinge silver of a 

 blackish colour in an hour's time. 



There are other Sulphur waters combined with Vitriol in this 

 county, whereof there is one in a ditch in the Park meddow under 



BROUGHTON Park pale, and another at 



MONMOORE green near WOLVERHAMPTON. Another at 



GRINDLESTONE edge, about a quarter of a mile eastward of 



HORTON church. 



One purely Vitriolic water is in Needwood Forest, about a mile 

 and a half south easterly from H ANBURY. Another is said to be at 



BURSLEM, near Newcastle-under-Lyme : but respecting the 

 quality of this last Plot entertains a doubt. 



Among what he terms milky waters, that hold somewhat of 

 vitriol in them, he notices one at HAMPSTED, the seat of Sir John 

 Wyrley, knt. 



Aluminous waters are found at 



DRAYCOT in the Clay, in the parish of Hanbury, and near 



HORECROSS, westerly from the hall by the brook side in a 

 ground called Broadfield, belonging to Robert Howard Esq. 



