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20. Other waters again are of fo flow a pace, that they feeni 
rather to fweat than run out of the Earth, part whereof being 
fpentin exhalation^ and the reft in fating the dry neighboring 
Earth, do neither reach the Sea , are received in Lakes, nor 
fwallowed up like the former, but of thenifelves are ftopt upon 
the very furface. And yet I have obferved, and believe rightly 
too, that thefe are the moft durable Land firings we h^ve, wit- 
nefs that famous one of this kind at Nettlebed^ which I know not 
from what old Witch heretofore, by way of derifion, they call 
Mother Bibblemeer ; whereas if we confider how ferviceable flie 
has been, being never known to fail them in the dryeft Summer, 
and that in a Country fo uncapable of Wells, that there's no fuch 
thing to be found in the Parifli, llie rather merits the efteem of 
the Nymph of the place. 
2 1 . In Weftphalia they have a Spring they call their BolJerhorn \ 
from a noife that it makes at the exit of the water ; whether ours 
may defer ve the name, I know not, but fuch a one there is in the 
Paridi of Glympton^ in a wood about a mile fouth-vpeji from the 
Church, in a place where there areftones in the form of Cockles \ 
upon which account hereafter I (liall mention it again* The 
Springs^ as I remember, are in number three, and the mo^fouthern 
one of thefe 'tis that has the humming noife, much like that of 
an empty bottle held with the mouth againft the wind,which per- 
haps may be a refemblance fo befitting our purpofe, that it may 
help'to explain the caufeas well as the found : for provided the 
channel be large within, and the palTage forth fomwhat narrow 
like a bottle, the coUifion of the water againft the lips of the 
orifice^ may well make a noife in a large vault within, efpccially if 
the waters be indued with a fpirit, as pcradventure anon may be 
proved like enough . 
2 2. which is all I have to fay concerning the flux of Rivulets^ 
but that one there is at Sommerton makes a fmall Cafcade^ or fall 
of water about feven foot high ; which were it not in the high- 
way, but in a Gentlemans Garden, fomeufe might be made on't 
for divers good purpofes, but as the cafe ftands I thinkitcan 
have none, except for experiments of petrifications^ for which 
fure it cannot but be very excellent, fince the living blades of 
grafs of not above half a years growth, within that fmall time 
' Varenii Geog- Ilk i, cap. i'J-pyop.\'). 
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