The j\(amral Hijlory 
waters in all probability might receive their tinftures from the 
fame Minerals^ and that their difterence might only lye in the 
diftances they have from the Mineral bed, or more Colanders the 
one may pafs through than the other. Agricola obferves, that 
the water at Steurtvcald^mtWmg like ours, much hke rotten eggs^ 
not only comes forth of a Marble Quarry, but that the belchings 
of fuch as drink it falling, give alfo the odour of brayed Mar^ 
ble. Whether ours have either fuch a paiTage or effect, I muft 
confefs I cannot inform the Reader ; my Purfe not affording me 
to try the one, nor my Stomach the other : However, I could 
wifli it had not been ftop'd up, as I hear it is fince my being 
there, not only for the ufe It might have, but that Perfons better 
qualified than I, might have made the Experiments. 
60, Of Vitriolate and Ferrugineou^ fprings^therc are alfo plen- 
ty in this County y one at Nether-Worton^ and another at North- 
Wefion^y within lefs than a Bolts- fhot of each of their Churches ; 
both of thefe, befide their tinging with ^iz//j, let fall a fedimenC 
of a r^T?;' colour ; only with this difference, that Nether-Worion 
fpringismuch the quicker and clearer, though I doubt not the 
other might be very well amended, were but little charge be- 
flowed oiyit. 
61, At .S'/^z/Z^T? under /r/j/Vi-irW there is another of thefe, at 
an Inn there whofe fign is the Red-horfe^ but fo weakly impregna- 
ted with the Mineral^ that it fcarce tinges fenfibly with the powder 
of gallsy yet lays down the rufy fediment in as great quantities 
as any of the refl ; and I have met with fome at other places that 
have plentifully enough yielded this^ which by no means could 
ever be brought to confefs any thing of Vitriol^ which has begot- 
ten a flrong fufpition in me, that this rujiy tin^ure may probably 
be the effluvium of fome other Body, diflbrent from, and not of 
the chaljbeat kind : for were it fo, I cannot imagin but the fait 
of Mars mufl needs be difcovered. However, herein 1 will 
not bepofitive, but propound it only as the fubjed of a feverer 
refearch. 
62, And of thefe I was told of a very odd one in the Parifli 
of Heddington, near a place called the Wyh 0 think) nowilop'd 
up, that in the winter time would flrike with galls ^ but not in 
the fummer: whereof may be given this very eafie reafon; that 
* Jfound another fmcfj 7t€ar'Wh.itQS-Ooi]iii7i the Parifh of North-Leigh. 
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