- At Bafel the Springs running in the Gerbergajje (oxTan- 
nersJjfreet ) from St, Leonard's Hill* is of a Blewifh colour , 
and fomewhat troubled, holding Copper, Bitumen, and An- 
timony , abom 5 parts of the frrft , one of the fecond, and 
two of the laft, as has been examined by skilful Perfotis’ 
Our Tanners do water their Skins in it? and being a -well* 
tailed and wholfome Water, it is both much drunk, and u- 
fed to Bath in. It mingles with another Spring water, call’d 
th QBirJfckt and with it, between th e Salt -tower and the 
Rhine- gate ruhs into the Rhine > 
Tn the fame Town (which abounds with Spring-waters) 
there ajre two, among the reft, called Bandulph's-welly and 
Bmn Z um Brmnenl that are more obfervable then the other ?- 
the former of them having a Camphor j and drying Quality, 
and tafed againft Hydropical Diftempers 5 the latter contain* 
log fome Sulphur, Saltpeter and Gold, and being an excel- 
lent Water to drink, much ufed in the principal Tavern of 
the City, where the chief of the Town do refort? and near 
which it runs, 
In Alfatia in the Valley? called Leberthal, near (jeesbacb 
(an ancient Mine*work) there runs out a of Cavern a foul, 
f&ttiffa, oily Liquor, which, though the Country- men of 
that place employ to the vile ufe of greafing their Wheels, 
inftead of ordinary Wheel- greafe ? yet doth it afford an ex- 
cellent Balfbm? by taking a quantity of it, and putting it in 
an Earthen Pot well luted, that no fteatn may exhale ? and 
then with a gentle Fire at fi ft, but a ftronger afferWards, 
boylingiefor three hours together ; in which fpace it Will 
boyl in a fourth pa *f and an Earthen Matter, like Pitch, will 
fettle it felf at the bottom -• but on the top thereof, when 
cold, there will fwim a fatty Subftance , like Lyne-Oyl, 
limped and fomewhat yellowifh, which is to be decanted 
from the thick Sedinv it, and then gently diftilled in an A - 
lembick in Arena ? by which means, \ here will come over 
two differing Liquors, one Phlcgmatick, the other Oily, 
which* 
