-boldcned my prefent adventure, there being now lefs peril;,xhat 
my Teftimony cm be refuted. But Foolilh people go hveating 
up the Hill , and then drink the cold water ^ or apply it Cold 
ix) their heated Ulce s , and then what g(>od .can be expected 1 
And ( withal ) thefe waters are kindeft to the Poor and jejune 
j>eople5 who are accuflomed to drinks almoflas weak as water, 
ii.o the Air in Enmudas, ^nd near Florida in Virginia y preferves 
hem that are addiited to a fimple and Natural Diet , without 
iicknefs j and frequently to the Age of an hundred years5 
whilft the Wealthy ( as perhaps more habitually accuftomed to 
Brandy, or fome high, and plentiful Diet) have neither firm 
health, nor long Life. Thus Mr. .5/^/zj/fi?r^ inyour N. 40. p, 
7P4 : And the like is. reported of Brafd by Pijo and Bontius, 
ISIo Salubrity of Air, or Medicine ofthe pureft water^^can recover 
health or fecure long life to them tKat are excelfively luxurious. 
All thefe waters are purely limpidjfrec from all fcdiment , very 
lerfive apd fearching^and moft efFedual at the Spring-head. 
10. I omit many other Healing waters> that I may give you 
a brief touch of fuch Mineral , Saline, and Medical waters, as I 
Jiwive found, or heard of, in our Neighbourhood 5 Namely 
afoout TeavHin Somerfetjhire, liatdy hear of two more Met- 
talline Springs in Borcetjhire ^ befidcs that of Farringtony ana- 
Jy^'edby Dr H. in yourN. 55. Perhaps their vertuesand their 
Fan^e are encreafed by this drought. The Valine Spring there 
mentioned by Dr H. toht Bafl^Chenoti , is about 3. miles 
hence Weftward, In a Very Droughty i'ummer I found it 
flrong Brine. But there is a ^wilc-^pring of far greater worth 
^l Everich, about 12 miles hence tovvaids Shefton-Malkt i of 
this I vvill owe you a concernment. The Pool 5 which yieldeth 
the Vitriolate <Salt , . which I fent you, is m Sock- Denis ^ 3 or 4 
Miles hence weftward. 'Tisnot a great Pool, not above 10. 
foot fquare. Whether theSalt proceeded from a 5pring,or from 
a vein of vitriolate Earth, I cannot yet determine 5; the Pool ha- 
ving not been drayned fince l extrafied the i'alt , thpugh I cx- 
peded it, H hen I gave you the notice , recorded in your N.18. 
p. 323. The Mud and Earth about it is as blew as any Roman 
Afkriol. In along-lafting and hard Froft,I fent for a Quart^ot- 
xk-of the watej-^and found itvery tbick,and blackiflijandk {en- 
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