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t^r, but is Co hot, they all affirm it foon Boy Is Eggs | 
Ibme fay Craw-fiOi, Chickens, and even a Turkeys 
but perhaps this laft wants good Confirmation. How- 
ever it's certain, that near where it comes forth^ there is 
no enduring any part of the Body but it takes off rhe 
Skin, it Cures Uiccrs, and contradled Nerves and Si- 
news in a few Days to a Miracle. Colonel Beckford, 
who was given over by the Phyficians, with Pains in 
his Bowels very Acute , that had worn him out, and 
another for the Veneral Diieafe ; and one for the Belly- 
ach are now gone up and perhaps before I ftal this 
we may hear from them ; and if it Cures them, it muft 
be of that virtue and efficacy, that perhaps there's not 
the like known in the World We are in Hopes it will 
alfo do for the Gout ; and if it has all thefe C^alities, 
it will bring the Spaniards, and all the Nations about us 
for Cure, and make the lOand famous. 
It has been try'd with Gauls in my fight, and it makes 
the Water in Twenty four Hours look only like Canary, 
or Old Hock. But we have a fine large River runs by 
the fides of this Town, which ferves all the People for 
Drinking and other Ufes, and was by the Spaniards 
caird Rio Colre^ or the Copper River \ this now our Cu- 
riofity has led us to try with Gauls, and in ooe Night 
the Water turns to a deep Green, more enclining to 
Black, deeper Coloured then any Emerauld I ever faw, 
which makes me doubt the Copper Mines in it are not 
enough digefl:ed,and that its unwhol(bme,but were the ^ 
more refined and excellent, it would be a Salubrious Wa- 
ter 5 this will put us upon trying n^oft of the Water we 
J drink of in the Country, where is abundance of Springs 
I and Rivers ; but I believe moft of them Impregnated 
. with fome Mineral or other. 
Mm i Sir, 
