cers and Cancers by outward application, may betoo bn/ily 
coiTofive and dangerous, if taken inwardly. 
5. To approach clofer to the main point, Ifliould nowdef- 
cend to particulars , and take a more exad accompt of fome fin- 
gular Qualities in waters. Credible Authors , both Ancient 
and Modern 5 do make very ftrange reports of fome Fountains 
and Lakes : And you have given us confiderable Narratives of 
the BoyfterouS'Spring in We^fhalia 5 and of the Salt Springs m 
GirmmjyH. 7. Of the Springs in FaderhmjBafelj andln 
fitidjN, 8. And lately N. 54. of the Lake in C^hj/W^: Bu£ 
I mud not now purfue wonders 5 I ought hereto apply to the 
point , with fome diverfions for general ufefulnefs and property, 
for our own Country. Salt is a part of our food 5 it fcafons all 
things and (if rightly ordered) affifts Fertility, And Healing 
waters have fomewhatof the obligingnefs of the divine mS 
racles. And tbefe two fliall be my prefentbufinefs y Sah and 
Beding waters^ 
Parc^rumque colos exoratura feverar 
: faid the Gentile Poet C/W/Wi: 
6, I think I may note^ that generally all the Springs in Eng- 
land ^ thatareof very Ancient efteem for Healing 5, and werr 
eommonly c^VCd Holy-'mRs y fuch as St. v^mfrids-w^lt in ' 
Flint'^ire X^ of which I never made tryal , but itcarries the grea^ 
teftFame, ) are all very pure, and yield no kind of fedimentv In 
thisjourhot Baths, and perhaps fome few Mineral Springs^ are 
to be excepted. I muft yet be more particular. 
7. I know a Spring, which the old People there call their He^ 
onthefideofa lowHili inanArablc Field vwhich (be* 
fides the Healing Qualities ) hath an extraordinary efficacy ia 
clearing the skin from Sun-burnings and freckles 5 and addeth 
as muchluftre^as agrees with the finer Art of concealing Art^and 
witli modefty-, And,after wafhing two or three morningS;, it 
makes theskiaas fmoothas Glafs, It palTeth through a vein 
af light Sand, if I may call it, Sand v 'lis more like to fome 
kind of blewifli crifped Marie- 'tis fo light and hollow^. as if it 
were freflily working by fome ferment-, and 'tis fo full of verf 
fmall and thin Lamina y feeming to be Metalline 5 and bright^ 
liljc the pupeft i Silver J thaE iccacouraged-qie^abouciz j^ears^tir 
