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jeo di Fiante rare dell a Sicilia^ Maha^ Cor- 
ftca^ It alt ay Piemonte e Cermania^ ^c. di 
Don Paolo Baccone^ Sec. with additional He- 
m ark/ by Mr John Ray,F.K.,5', IX. An Index 
to the PhiloffJphicat TranfaSlionSj from Numb. 
236, to 2^j^ inclnftve. 
I. Part of a Letter from Mr.Geoflroy, to Dr,Sloane,from 
Paris, 21 Dec.1698. N.S.coficerningthe Mineral Waters 
at St. Amand near Tournay and Valeneiennes. 
THere has been found a Mineral Water^called, St.Amands- 
Water, which has been very much in ufe the laft Sum- 
mer and Autumn, in all forts of Sickneffes, rather for its No- 
velty, than for its great and extraordinary Properties. 
Fifteen Years ago the Country -men began to feek fome 
Vertues in that Watei*, but fince the end of the laft War,they 
have imputed to it the greateft Properties. Moft fick Per- 
fons are willing to drink (ome, thinking to fwallow in great 
Glaffes their Health with that Water. Abundance of People 
have been upon the Place for drinking it there, or for ba- 
thing in its Mud, and others have been contented to bring 
fome to their Houfes to drink. 
The Curiofity of (bme Perfons has engaged me to make 
fome Experiments upon that Water ; and here is an Account 
of the Mineral Fountain, of the Water's Qaalicy, of the Ex- 
periments upon it, and of the Vertues that they attribute to ir. 
This Mineral Water is called St.AmantTs Water y becaufe 
its Spring is in the Land depending on the Abby of the fame 
Name, of the Order of St. BeneMc^^ in the Diocefe of Tournay 
in Flanders, This Spring is ficuated Two Miles from that Ab- 
bey, Four Leagues from Tournay ^ Three Leagues from Valen- 
ciennes ; but the Fountain is called particularly, La Fontaine du 
bomllon, for the impetuous boyling of that Springing Water. 
This Fountain is fituated in a (hallow and MarThy Ground ; 
the Bafon of the Spring is Four hundred and fifty Foot Iquare, 
there is in the bottom of that Bafon the Mud of Twenty 
Foot 
