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ADDITIONAL NOTES 
ON THE SPEINGS AND SPAS OF NORFOLK. 
Ly II. R. Woodward. 
Read February, 1 S 83 . 
My former communication on this subject (p. 318) Ims been so far 
productive of good as to elicit .some additional facts of interest. 
In a nonsensical work, entitled ‘ Is Geology Antagonistic to 
Scripture? . . . containing a geological description of the 
Hunstanton Cliff, in Norfolk,’ by an M.A. of Cambridge (18G3), 
mention is made (pp. 148, 149) of “the Chalybeate Spring, in the 
liingstcad Downs, about a mile and a half distant from the new 
hotel of Hunstanton,” — the ‘Golden Lion,’ I presume. The spring 
is situated in the yard, close by the old firm-house in the Downs, and 
is described as a “powerful Spring, strongly impregnated with iron.” 
^Ir. W. Whitaker, to whom I am indebted for the reference just 
given, also kindly lent me a copy (imperfect) of an epistle in verse 
on Rcflley Spring, addressed to “Dear Joe,” and dated Lynn, 
October 2Gth, 1804. It was not signed, nor was the title-jiage 
preserved j but there can be no doubt this was the ivork (previously 
noticed, p. 321) by John Grisenthwaite. The following e.xtract 
gives all the information it contains, of any interest, connected with 
the spring : — 
“ In the midst of a wood, like all otliers I ween, 
Where hedges, trees, bushes, and briars are seen, 
Slother earth disengages her chrystalline store. 
Still running and running, yet ne’er running o’er. 
(Such phoenomena strange long excited much doubt. 
Till wondrous ’twas found, as ’t ran in, it ran out. 
Nor less cou’d they guess, though of knowledge brim-full. 
Why ferruginous water by acids turn dull.)” 
Mr. R. J. Morton has informed mo of a Chalybeate Spring at 
Seething; I learn of another at Holkham from .Air. A. J. Napier; 
and Mr. F. J. Dennett reports the discovery of one at Shelf han<^er; 
but these call for no further mention. ° 
