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'A^ account of a S^k Spring, and another Uedici' 
nal Spring, on the bank^ of the River Weare, or 
Ware in the Bifhof rick of Dmh^Lvn in a Letter to 
the Publiflier, from the ingenious Mr. Hugh Todd 
Fe llor:p ofXlxAw Qi^iiy College inOvion^ and Cha^- 
lain to the right Reverend Father in God — - Lord 
Bijhop of Carlile. 
I Am fo much oblig'd to you for your many Favours 
when I was with you ; that now, when I am at fo great 
a diftance from Oxon^ I cannot pafs by any oportunity of 
ferving you, in vifiting the Curiofities Art ot Nature 
(with which the Northern parts Durham^ and Cumberland 
efpecially, do abound) and in giving you an account of 
what, I judge, may be worth your knowledge. 
When I was at Z)/zr/?'^7w I was informed of an extraor- 
dinary Salt-Springs and another Mineral-Springy about 
a mile, or a mile and half out of Town. Upon the firft 
leafure time that I had, I went to fee them; as I found, 
fome of the i^2??y^rj* that came the C?>m>, and many o- 
ther Gentlemen had done. 
Salt'Springy lyes, as I faid, about a mile and half 
out of Town, on the North-Eaft fide, at a place called 
Salt-water haugh near Butter by. It rifes in the middle of 
the River Weare or Ware; and is good to be feen, and 
tafied, only in the Summer time, when the water isdif- 
charg'd all, on. one fide of the Channel: for inWinter^ 
when the River is high it loofes its Salts^ in the frefli 
ftreams, fo that they are not perceivable. The water 
does not rife at one or two or three places, but feems to 
bubble up equally in all parts in the Chctnnel^ for the 
lpaceof4o yards in length, andabout lo in breadth: for, 
'\ whereever, 
