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pour upon the application of a lighted candle, or torch 
did not flame, or catch the leaft fire ; as the fumes run-' 
ning through a boyling fpringnear Wiga?i in Lancajhire 
do 5 for Mr. Sherley made them burn, and fiarac very 
vigoroufly at the contad of a lighted candle ; Philofoph, 
Tranfad. N. 26^ p. 48 J. fo that here we have two dif- 
ferent forts of fteamscauling thefe boylings, yet neither 
of the fountains are MedicinaL or fo much was arm; 
the like is related by Vareniiis, {^primo lapide a Culma 
{l^jsXiQi) fons magno fpiritu emittit aquam quaji ferven^ 
terUy cum tamen fit frigidtjjima^ unde vocant In[anam.'\ The 
learned Dr. P/o^^^in his late book Be Origins Fontium^ 
mentions fome fountains in \^ qui cum foiiitu 
rumpunt^ impetu ferri (3 fragore ruunt,'] Many hiffing, 
fprings bubbling at the top, I have found in Switzerland 
fthe beft water'd Country that ever I fawj and, in many 
places near the KJmie-^ but I had not opportunities to 
experiment and Philofophize, upon them. There are 
other boyling waters of a quite contrary temper, being 
adually hot to feverall degrees, fo as to boyl eggs, and 
many other things put into them ; as thofe near the Sol* 
fatara not far from iVb/?/^j",beforeyou defcend by the lit- 
Hq Capuchm-Cloyfter to Pu^^^^uolo, antiently call'd Futeoli ; 
as alio upon the top of Mount ^f^^o in the Duke of Mo- 
denas Territories, not far from his villa near Sajprlo-, and 
in the fource of the Emperour's Bath at Jken, in the 
Country oiJuliers. Varenius tell us, [ qnodin Japoniafons* 
adeo fervidus, 6 EbuU'uns^ prorumpit^ ut ignis vehement 
tijjimilicet fervor e nulla aqua ad eum gradum caloris per- 
ducipojjit^ tripio enim diutius retinere fervorem quam nojira 
aquor calefaBa, CQvJueverit \ non jluit continue^ fed his de 
die per unam horum,^ tunc temporis tanto fpirituum impetu^ • 
^ vehementia fertur, ut tncumhentiaputeo ingentia faxa- 
commoveat, C3 ad trtum vel quatuor ulnarum altitudinem 
tanto fragore^ ut exphjionem magm tormenti hellici refe^ 
rat, 
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