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ro give them : And as the Conjectures were framed : 
chiefly for my own ufe, againft another Opportunity 
of obferving this Fountain more carefully; fo they 
are now communicated only for the ufe of others, 
who may perchance find fuch an Opportunity before 
me. Thefe Obfervations will however difcover fome- 
thing of the Nature of this Spring not yet imparted 
to the Society , nor taken notice of by the Naturalifts, 
fo far as I know, in any other Spring whatfoever. 
But fince they are few, and imperfeft, I fhall be 
more particular in my Relation of them, that no 
greater Strefs may be laid on them than they de- 
fer ve. 
The Spring is fituated’at one End of the Town of 
Er’txam near Torbay in Devonpire, and is known 
by the Name of Laywell. It is a long Mile di- 
ftant from the Sea, upon the North and North-Eaft 
Side of a Ridge of Hills lying between- it and the 
Sea,, and making a Turn or Angle near this Spring. 
It is fituated in the Side of thofe Hills, near the Bot- 
tom, and feems to have its Courfe from the South-*Weft' 
towards the North-Eaft. There is a conftantly run- 
ning Stream which difcharges itfelf near one Corner 
into a Bafon about eight Foot in Length, and four 
Foot and a half in Breadth j the Outlet of which is 
at the fartheft End from the Entrance of the Stream, 
about three Foot wide, and of a fufficient Height. 
This I mention, that a better Judgment may be made 
of the perpendicular Rife of the Water in the Bafon, 
at the time of the Flux or Increafe of the Stream. 
Upon the outfideof the Bafon are three other Springs, 
which always run, but with Streams fubjeCt to a like • 
regular Increafe and Decreafe with the former. They- 
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