GRO 
the ferpents clinging varioufly all around, eit and fuck- 
ing them, they become fo thoroughly freed of all their 
hoagie humours, that upon repeating the Sig for fome 
they become erfectly rettored. ershited 
‘WiGted himfelf, and found it warm, and e eae: bons 
to the defeription ven of it. He faw the holes, ‘ie pair 
a murmuring hig fei in them. Though he miffed 
fecing the ferpents, it not being the feafon of their creeping 
_ Out; yet he faw a great number of their exuviz, or floughs, b 
and an elm, growing hard by, laden with them 
The difcovery of this cave was by the cure of a leper go- 
ing from Rome to fome baths near this place ; who, lofing 
is way, and being ages: ry ge 108 this cave ; 
and finding it very warm, pulled off his clothes ; and being 
weary and fleepy, had the pom foitwié not to feel the 
pents about him till they had wrought his cure. .Mufeu 
Wormian. 
The falutary effeéts of this os were probably of the 
fame nature, andto be afcribed ay bisa caufe with 
thofe of the Pyrmont. and Spa ae rene ta ng with a 
Girt quantity of the € Gets or fixed air, which lies alfo to a 
irface of the sity 3 and whither 
in a variety of dif. 
The Rpts falutary nae of this air is now 
fufliciently known, 
Grorro, Mill » Crypta ey a mile diftant from the an- 
cient village of Bethlehem s faid to have been thus deno. 
minated on occafion of the ‘bleed Virgin, who let fall fome 
of milk in giving fuck to Jefus in this grotto. And 
hence it has been n commonly fuppofed, that the earth of Se 
cavern has the virtue of retorin, ie: to women that 
own dry, and even of curing fe 
Accordingly, they are always dca init, aah the earth 
is fold at a good rate to fuch as have fai th enough to give 
eredit to the, fable. se altar has been built on the place, 
and a church juit by 
MPOnTe is alfo Ned for a little ne edifice made ina 
rien. 3 in imitation oh a natural ¢ 
grot manner: take clear 
pa “aiolve | it in a brafs- 
two drams of the finett vermilion when you have ftirred them 
well together, obs oa twigs and pena, 
oaites and dri > a pe paint the bra 1 
over whilit the cpa is poms 3 a 
imitation of natural coral. . This done 
ra aor coal Bina all is fmooth and e even as if polithed. 
whe, he hashes with 
of glafs, cin- 
, ftones, coun- 
ve 
defer ‘ 1 cement aes patie 
og ps Vefalls is ret pi of de 
3 toevery ounce of which add | 
or cemented. i 
GRO 
PSlomon de Caux has an exprefs treatife of grottos and 
untains. 
GROTTOLA, in Lib a a town of Naples, in the 
Vaflicta ; 4 miles §. W. of Mater 
; a town of iets on he Grain Coaft; 10 
"ies N. ie of Cape Palm 
.& E, Henry, in Biigraply; was born at Taunton, 
: Pe res eae in the year 1683. He was defcended, 
th by his father and mother, from fanii eas bed great 
attpectability, aiid who had been remarkable for their fleady 
Etec achment to religious liberty, and the rights of conteene 
Henry was formed to the Jove fs pes of virtue, Tet 
ays 
n, with a view to the Chriftian miniltry. 
jr” hen he had competed the ufual courfe, under the fuper- 
itendance of this gentleman, he removed to London, an 
crofecuted his rae ia under Mr. Rowe ; here he was led to. 
ultivate the Hebrew angnag e, and here he embraced the 
ae fyftem of philofo i 
efcartes, to which his tutor 
Fe, Watts, which 
pentinued with mutual efteem til Mis death ; though on 
t}any points, warmly controyerted in that day, as in this, 
ey differed in opinion. In pe he fucceeded his hor, 
cir. these in the academy at 
5: the lait was afterwards republithe 
Jr. Gibfon, bifhop of London, in the treati ool 
: title of « eg s Evidences of the C 
. 
gis 
Le 
a 
2; 
-byt 
ian erg bee In 1718 Mr. Grove publithed an Eien 
wards the De Doesnouifire ibe of the Soul’s pimps 
on the 
&@ his hess with Mr. lins. & 
chiefly, as a tutor, in 
of knowl 
nt that Dr. Clarke had 
it 
phy, 
edge connected with it; but now, on the refig 
tei ee erly one of his colleagues, 
