burner. ' 
-pear to have exhibited uncommon diligence 
and great erudition, and fully to deferve the 
character of an original writer. 
Our author paid early attention to mine- 
ral waters. Fie was probably the firft who 
wrote on the baths of Baf/j, in Somerfei-* 
Jldire, He viiited feveral of the mineral 
fprings in Germany y Switzerland, and Italyy 
and drew up, whilfl abroad, a fhort account 
of ten of thofe waters to which he pre- 
fixed a more enlarged hifLory of the v/aters 
oi-Bath. This was written, as it iliould 
feem, at Bafil^ and is dedicated to his ^' well- 
beloved neighbours oiBath^ Brijhw^ Wells ^ 
^^Whifam, and Chardey' March lo, 1557. 
^ He adjudged the principle of Bath water 
to be brimftone, and poffibly a little copper, 
from the vicinity of that metal in the neigh- 
bouring mountains. He fays, he had been 
informed, that, heUdes brimftone, the King's 
bath held alum, and the Crofs bath falt- 
petre ; but that he could find neither. He 
concludes his account of the baths, by a fet 
of general rules for all v/ho drink mineral 
waters ; many of which do him no difcre- 
dit. 
