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reckon the Cloaca maxima of Rome 9 among the Medicated 
Waters of 
That he has a peculiar Way of multiplying medicated 
Springs, you'll believe, when I tell you that he reckons 
one Water among his Lancajhire Fontts Medkati^ which 
neither is medicated, nor lb much as a Spring at all; 
but, as I remember, (for 'tis near Five Years fince I ftw 
it) a meer Day- Water, that has no other Spring nor Sop- 
ply, but immediately from the Clouds. 
The Water which I mean is, his Fons Sulpkureus near 
Wiggan^ which (becaufe of its catching Fire at a lighted 
Candle ) he calls by the Name of Phojphorm Aqua^ 
ticm : (though after all, ic is not the Water but a Ha^ 
lit us which breaks out at the Bottom of the Hole, after 
moft of the Water, or all the Water is thrown out, which 
catches Fire.) But this is much lucb a Fom Sulphureta^ 
as his Water near Boultom is a Fom FitriolaceuSy i. fine 
Sulphnre^ as the other is fine Vitr 'tolo. Only with this 
iK)table Difference^ that the Ochre of the Bouftcn Waters 
will, after it has been expos'd fbme time to the Air, yield 
(as the Ochre of all Atramentous Waters does) feme 
little Vitriol but this Water, whether expos'd to Fire 
or Air, will (ooner yield Maggots than Brimftone. 
But now to let you fee that neither Boulton nor Lan^- 
tajhire are the only Places that produce Wonders, he 
takes a ftep into Deriyjhiret^nd difcovers more Wonders 
there, than ever were thought to be^ in the Peak 
before; he finds a Rock there near Buxton ^ which 
yields Vitriol , where not one Grain of the Pyrites 
is to be found. Any one that defign'd to write with 
either the Exaftnefi or Sincerity of a Philofopher, 
would here have given us fome Defcription of this 
Rock ,• but that it feems we muft not expedl from this 
Gentleman ; he contents himfelf with bai'e calhng ic a 
Rock, and tells us its Parifli, and then he has done : I 
I i i enquired 
