^8 • ' The !h(iatural Hiflory 
taft, 1 guefs may be impregnated with fomthing of Vitriol^ which 
though of it felf it be a fmart acid^ yet its edge being rebated 
with a well concofted fulphur^ turns fweet, and becomes of that 
more palatable guft. And herein perhaps I have not guefs^d a- 
mifs, iince we are informed by as eminent, as 'tis a vulgar Expe- 
riment, that the aufterity that Vitriol gives in the mouth, is cor- 
reded by the fumes of Tabacco taken quickly after it ; whofe fiil^ 
fhunows particles^ fays the Learned Willie ^, mining with the /aline 
fontic ones of theV\ino\createfuch a fleafant and mellifluous taft, 
^5. There are alfo two fmall and very weak f}>rings^ of a la- 
£ieom colour but no fiich taft, in the way from South-JIoke leading 
to Goreing^ by the River fide ; not many years fmce of great re- 
pute in thofe parts for Medicinal ufe, but now quite deferted ; 
whether upon account of the ineffeftual ufe of them, or becaufe 
they are but temporary fprings,y«Z' JudicelMeft : The people will 
tell you they were very foveraign, and never ceafed running till 
fome advantage was made of the veater^ and that Providence till 
then with-held them not. This water iffues forth from a fat 
whitifli Earth, and has always a kind of unftuous (kin upon it, 
yet to the taft I thought it feemed dry and fiiptical^ as if it pro- 
ceeded from a kind of Lime-fione^ further within the Earth, and 
nottobefeen. 
66. But however the cafe may have it felf there, it is not fo 
dubious, that at a Well in Oddington^ there is a water of the 
calcariou^ kmd^znd proceeding fure from fome neighboring Lime^ 
fione^ which befide its dry and refiriSiive taft, more fignally evi- , 
dences itfelf, in the providential cure of a local Difeafe amongfl: 
Cattle, frequently catch 'd by their grafing on Otmoor^ and there- 
fore by the Inhabitants thereabout commonly called by the name 
of the Moor-Evil : The Difeafe is a kind of flux of the belly, and 
correfponds (in a Man) to what we call a Dyfentery^ whereby the 
Cattle fo fpend themfelves, that in little time from well and good 
liking, they fall in a maner to fkin and bone, and fo dye a way un- 
lefs prevented ; which is certainly done by giving them dry meat, 
and fuffering them to drink of this water only. 
6 7 . Befide thefe we have many other waters^ not apparently 
(atlcaft to fenfe) of any Mineral virtue, yet without doubt have 
their tlnSturefrom fome fuhterraneou6 fteam, of a much finer than 
^- Dc- A}ima Brutorum.iCap- ix. De Guftatu, 
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