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this Inhuman Action, for the man being tortored by an uneasy 

 Conscience confessed the fact and suffer'd condign punishment : 

 but the other could never yet be heard of. 



" Mr. Cotton sounded this place above eight hundred and 

 eighty-four yards, but could find no Bottom. 



" Not far from here is Tideswell whiche is Reported to observe 

 its Constant Tides four times in the Hour. But some persons 

 distrusting the verity of this matter we thought it not worth 

 our while to visit the place.* 



" About three miles hence is Buxton famous for the 

 Bath dedicated to S 1 - ANN. The waters are extreamly warm, 

 are much courted in the summer by y e Nobility and Gentry, 

 having a medicinal vertue in em good for the Stomach nerves, 

 sinews and the whole body.t Near it is a Cold Spring whose 

 waters are esteemed good against many distempers. 



" [A gentleman that was traveling showed me an Almanack 

 of the Danish invention. It was about 2 foot long 4 square 

 and not like what Dr. Plot met in Staffordshire yet essentially 

 the same !]{ 



" Sir Thomas Delves of Dodington in the Co. of Chester 



Bar 1, having long languished under an Asthma was cured by 



drinking these waters. In memory whereof he has covered it 



with a strong stone Building. Near the Hot Bath are these 



encomiastic Lines. I give you em exactly as they are written — 



" Corpore debiliur, Geani se proluit undis 

 Qurerit aquas Aponi, quam febris atra necat 

 Ut penitus Renam purget, cur Psaulia tanta 

 Vel qute dant Radiis pectora Calderise? 

 Sota mihi Buxtona placet Buxtona Britannus 

 Unda, Granus, Aponus, Psaulia, Calderia." 



* Our traveller apparently got confused between Tideswell and the 

 Ebbing and Flowing Well, which was one of Hobbes' and Cotton's 

 "Wonders." 



t Glover gives a list of seventy-six medicinal springs in Derbyshire. 



X These clog almanacks, as they were called, were in common use in 

 England from the time of the Saxons — they may have been introduced by 

 the Danes. An engraving of Dr. Plot's Staffordshire Clog can be seen in 

 The Reliquary, vol. v., p. 124. The clog almanack shown to our travellers 

 may have been one of those now preserved in the Chetham Library in 

 Manchester. It was presented by Mr. John Moss in 171 1, two years 

 afterwards. 



