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Foot deep; beyond that they find the Sand, which fometimes 
is very moving^and at fbme other times is very firm. Very often 
this Fountain cafts up a great Quantity of Sand : and laft Year 
in a licde time it caft up more than Sixteen Cart Loads of ir, 
by the which all the Bafon was bordered. 
There is to be found Three forts ofEarth, thefirft andfu- 
perficial is black, and burns as 7«rf with the fame Smell. The 
Second is white, and the Third has the fame Colour as the 
Slate. Thefe Two laft forts of Eartli do give by Lixivmn^ a 
Salt like Sal gemma. 
This Sr. Amanis-JVater in its Spring is clear and luke warm, 
and appears much hotter at Night and in the Morning, than 
the reft of the Day. It has the Smell aad Tafte like ftanding 
Water. If it is expofed to the Air^ it lofes its Smell and its 
Tafte in a Oiort time. By that Facility to lofe its Tafte and 
Smell, one may judge that it has a Sulphur very volatile; and 
for that great volatility and fubtilty it is almoft impoflibie to 
make any Experiments upon it. 
Thefe are the Experiments that I have made upon the Wa- 
ter that has been brought to me. 
This Mineral Water has the fame Weight as the Seine Ri- 
ver-water. It altered not the Colour of Sirrup of Violets, nor 
the Tincture of Tume Sol, Lime Water, the Oyl of Tartar, 
the Volatile Spirit of Sal Armoniac and Harts Horn have 
whited that Water, and have made in it a light Coagulum. 
This Water, mixt with the Diffolution of Armoniack Salt, 
has not given any fmell. It has not alter'd the Infufion of Galls. 
Mingled with the Solution of Vitriol, has troubled it a little, 
and has given a greenifti Colour, and at length it precipitated 
a Yellow Powder. 
Acid Spirits have not fermented at firft with that Water, 
but afterwards it has made fome little Bubbles, vyhich remain- 
ed to the fide of the Glaffes, wherein were contained the Li- 
quors. 
I have diftilied five pints of that Water ; the diftilled Wa- 
ter has not had any Tafte nor Smell, and it has not changed 
the Tindure of Tumfoly neither the Lime- Water. There re- 
mained from that Five Pints(or One hundred and fixty Oun- 
ces) Seventy Grains of Refidue ; the which, by Lixivium has 
given to me Fifty-five Grains of grey Earth, and Fifteen 
Grains of white Salt, almoft MkQ Sal gemma. 
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