Note concerning the Boiling Springs^ 



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THE Boiling Fountain at Peroul being not occa- 

 fion'd by a warm, inflammable Vapour, like 

 that of Wigan in Lancajhire, I am inclined to think is 

 of the fame Nature with fome Boiling Wafers I have 

 met with, whole Caufe is manifeft. One is near Lit- 

 tle Tlourrock) in the Road between Grays and Chad- 

 well, in EJex ; where, in a Ditch at the bottom of a 

 pretty high Gravelly-Hill, there are many Springs, 

 which bubble and boil up in large Quantities, like 

 the boiling of Water over a vehement Fire. But I 

 foon perceiv'd that this was no other than the Cur- 

 rents of Water defcending plentifully through fome 

 fubterraneous Paflagesof the Hill : Which Currents 

 breaking out at the bottom (inftead of the Sides of 

 the Hill) caufed this Representation of Boiling in di- 

 vers Parts of the bottom of the Ditch, which car- 

 ried up with it the fmall Sticks and Dirt to the top of 

 the Water. 



Another Boiling Water I have met with, is one 

 called the Boiling Well, by the Road fide, on the 

 Defcent of the Hill above Sudley-Caflle, near Winch- 

 comb in Glocefierpire, where the Water breaks outV 

 and runs into a fmall Bafon, with a gutling bubbling 

 Noife, which gives the Appearance of boiling in the 

 Bafon for a ihort time, and then ceafes for a little 

 while, and runs again as before- But this is occafi- 

 on'd only from a Breach in, or Parting of fome Pipes 

 carrying Water from the Conduit, near the top of 

 the Hill, to Sudley-Caftle at the bqttoni, and is the 

 fame Phenomenon as the pouring W ater out of af 

 Bottle with a long Neck, 



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