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any that I could find so near as is reported, viz., that you 

 might put your thumb into one and your finger into 

 another. I think thereabout be as many, and possibly 

 some as hot springs as any at the Bath. Underneath 

 the earth is nothing but limestone. Here is a well called 

 St. Anne's of Buckstone, a warm spring which they 

 drink, and fancy that it cures all diseases. On the 

 moorish hiUs and in the pastures hereabout, T first ob- 

 served Alchimilla [A. vulgaris, Linn.,] Muscus clavatus 

 sivelycopodium [L.clavatwu^ Linn.,] Erica baccifera fructu 

 nigro \Empetrum nigrum. Linn.,] Viccinia rubra [Vacci- 

 nium Vitis-idma Linn.,] Vitis idma thgmi foliis, muscus 

 erectus abietiformis [Lgcopodium Selago, Linn.] Out of 

 an hill near Buxton, called Axe-edge, spring four rivers, 

 which run four contrary ways, viz., Dove south, Dane 

 west, Gwayt north, and Wye east. 



August the 2 2d, I rode to a place called Weeding 

 Well, where there is shown a little well, which, they will 

 tell you, sometimes ebbs and fiows three times in an hour, 

 but in these dry summers hath quite ceased. Thence I 

 went to Elden-hole, which may be, for aught I know, 

 for depth, such as is reported : if you cast a stone 

 into it, after a while you shall hear the noise of it 

 striking against the sides to and again. They tell a story 

 of Sir Thomas Cavendish endeavouring to fathom it, and 

 of a stone that sticks out in it on one side about four- 

 score fathoms down ; it lies open without any fence or 

 rail, so that it is easy for cattle to fall into it. Hence I 

 went to Mamme Torr, which is a high mountain broken 

 on one side, of which the tradition is, that the earth con- 

 tinually falls down, yet is not the hill anything diminished, 

 nor the heaps of earth below at all increased. I got as near 

 as I could to the broken side, but could not hear or see any 

 such running down of the earth ; when there is rain, the 

 water running down washeth away with it much of the 

 hill. I was informed, that on the top of this mountain 

 is an antient Roman camp, encompassed with a double 

 trench, whereabouts are sometimes found store of antient 



