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A mordication that they have, feem to fuck out the humors &fuperfluous excremmerits of the body; 
being otherwife moft agreeable for the ftomacke, finewes,and generally,forall parts. Phere is a 
fountain at Thefpiz, a citie in Boeotia, which doth great pleature unto women that would faine 
have children ; for no fooner drink they of the water,but they are readic to conceive : and of this 
propertie isthe river Elatusin Arcadia . In which region allo the Spring Linus yeeldech water, 
which if a woman with child do drink, fhe fhall go out her full ume & notbe in dangerto flip an 
unperieét birth.Contrariwife,the river Aphrodifium in Pyrrhzea,caufeth barrennefic. The lake 
ormeere *Alphion ismedicinable,andcureth the foule Morphew. /i+7e mine aushor maketh *orberwie 
mention of one Titivs, aman of good worth, andfometimes lord Preetour, who was {o beraied ¢1!<¢ ange: 
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and peinted all over his face with {pots of Morphew, that be looked like an image made of {pot jt -ooke of 4k 
B_ ted marble. Cydnus,a river of Cilicia,hath a vertue to cure the gout; as appeareth by a letter phi.which G2- 
written from Ca/sivs the Parmezan noto'c%2, Anienivs. Contrariwilesthe waters about treezen 2 ene bel 
arefobad, that allthe inhabitants are thereby fubject rothe gout and other difeales of the fect. phei. 
There isa citi¢ in*Gaule named Tungri,much renowned for a noble *fountaine which runieth * ue eae _ 
atimany pipes: afmack it hath refembling the ruft of yron,howbeis this talt is not perceived but ie coiee 
atthe end and loofé only: This water is purgative driveth away tertian agues,¢ xpelleth the {lone fometime Bel 
and cureth the fympromes attending therupon:Set this water over the fire or neare unco it, you pate. 
fhall fee it thicke and troubled; bur at the lait, it looketh red.Betweene Puteoli and Naples,there the bath of 
be certaine wels called Leucogzxi,the water wherof cureth the infirmities ofthe etes and healech Spegh o: 
wounds, Creer in hisbooke entituled Admiranda,?, Wonders, among other admirable things Pee 
C hath raunged the moores orfens of Reate; for that the water iffuing from them hath naturally a 
propertie from all others,to harden the houles of horfes feet, Eudécws reporteth That in the ter- 
ritoric of Heftizea,a citi¢ in Theffalie,there bee two {prings; the one named Ceron,of which,as ° 
many theepe as drinke,prove black :the other Melas,the water whereof,maketh black fheep turn 
white: letthem drink of both waters mingled together, they will prove flecked and of divers co- 
lours. Theophraftws writeth , That the river Crathis in the Phurians countrey, cauferh both kine 
and fheepe as many as drinke thereof,to looke white : wheras the water of Sybaris giveth thema 
blacke hew. And by his faying this difference in operation is feene alfo upon the people that ule 
todrink of chem :foras many as take totheriver Sybaris, become blacker,harder,and withall of a 
more curled hair than others: conwariwifé the drinking of Crathis caufeth them to look white,to 
D demorefoft skinned, & their buth of haireto grow at length. Semblably in Macedonie they that 
would haveany catteilto growwhite,bring them to‘drinke at Aliacmon che river: butas many as 
defire they fhould be brown or blacke drive them to water at Axius. Thefame Theophra/lus bath 
lef in writing, Thar in fome placesthere is no other thing bred or growing bux brown & duskith, 
infomuch as notonly thecatcellis all of that leere,but alio che corn upon the ground, and other 
fruits of the earth;as among the Meflapians. Alio,at Lufee,acity of Arcadia,ther is acertain well, 
wherin therekeepe ordinarily land-mice.As for the river Aleos,whiuch paflech through Erychrz, 
it maketh chem to grow hairte all chet bodies over as avany as drinke thereof.la Boeotia likewile, 
neat unto the temple of the god Trophonius & hard by the river Orchomenas, tere be two foun- 
tains:the one helpeth memorie,the othercaufeth oblivion, wherupon they *took their names.In *For the for- 
E Cilicia,hard atthe town Crefcum,there runsa river called*Nus: aid by the faving of A¢./arro, Me iscall-d 
shoe e 1 alee : : 1 og <> Mabe, OF porjuae 
whotozver dtinke thereof; {hall find their wits more quick,and themfelves of better conceitthan, aur, the later 
before.Bucin the Ifle*Chios there is afpring,which cavfeth as many asufethe watertobce dull a 
and heavicof f{piric, At Zamz in Afftick,the water of a certain fountain,maketh a cleare & thiill pie eee 
voice. Let aman drinke of the lake Clitorius,he (hall take a mifliking and loathing of wine,faith ding, 
L4Sarre. And yet Eudoxws and Theopompus report, That the water of the fountaines beforefaid “9 Chic» 
make them drunke that ufeit. Mutianws aflirmeth, That out of the fountain underthe temple of 
father Bacchvs, within the Ifle Andros, at certaine times of the yeare for feven daics together, 
thererunneth nothing but wine ; infomuch as they call it the wine of god Bacehvs: howbeit, re- 
move the faid water our of the profped and view(as it were) of the faid remple,the taft will turne 
F tocewarerifhagaine, Polyclytws writeth of a certaine fountaine of Cilicia neare unto the cittie 
Soli, which yeeldeth an un¢teous or oleous water, that ferveth in ftead of oile. Theephre(iws re- 
porterh the fame ofanother fountain in Athyopia,which hath thelike quality,And Zyczs faith, 
That among the Indians there isa fountaine, the water whereof is ufed in lampes to maintaine ! 
light. And the like isreported of another water about Ecbatane [the capitall cittie of Media.] 
: T heopompws 
