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l^now of, ) by any writer, that any hot Boyimg Foun- 
tains will take flame at a dittance, as fomeof the bab- 
bling cold ones do. Monfieur hath written par- 
ticularly of the burning Fountain in Dauphme, 
Me^^ Fette ^FoUgnad\\2iVc given their obfervations on 
the flaming fprings n^QYHermanJiadt,hi\tl do not remem- 
ber that they made any particular Analy lis ot the water. 
Mud, Sand, Clay, or Earth, or any confiderable tryals 
upon them; I ara apt to believe, that there may be 
Veins of the Pyn>^j- near thofe places, the inflammabi- 
lity of which Minerall hath already been difcourfed of, 
and made very clear by Dr. Lifter, to whofe papers I re- 
ferr you, Fhilofophical TranfaS, N, i^j. The inge- 
nious Author of the letter from Poland^ Printed in the 
fournal des Scava7is, An. 1(584; relating the Hiflory of 
a burning Fountain in the Palatinate of Cracovia:, affirms 
that upon Evaporating the water a dark or Pitch-like 
^ub^lance may be extraded, which cures the mofi: inve- 
terate Ulcers in a very fhort time ; and that the Mud it- 
felfis very powerful! againft Rheumatick, and Gouty 
pains, Palfies, Scabs, 6cc. The inhabitants of an adja- 
cent Village, drinking much of this fpring, do gene- 
rally live to lOo and lyo years, which he attributes to . 
the fanative Vertue of the Water. 
The Naptha, or bituminous fubfl:ance floating upon 
a fpring d.t Pitchford m ShropJIjire, and upon St. Catha^ 
rines fountain neer Edinhurgb^ hath been fuccesfully 
us'd in Ulcerous and cutaneous diifempers; many fuch- 
like Fountains of P^^r<?/^//;;^3 and oyly lubfl:ances, are to 
be met with up and down, as in the Ifland of Z^nt, very 
plentifully; neer Gabian in the Road from Montpelier to 
Betters in Languedoc ; In the Valtaline lubjedl to the 
Grifohs at the foot of Mount Z^bio in the Dutchy of 
'Modena\ not to mention any of the places written of al- 
ready by Varenius. The Inhabitants living neer thefe 
fatoyly fprings take great care to gather and feparate 
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