158 Mr. RAY’j Itineraries. 
ping-Well.y fo called, becaufe it falleth 
from a Cliff or Precipice not far from 
the River; it rifeth' in the Field a 
good Diftance from the Place, where 
it falls down the high Bank ; and 
any other running Water that falls 
down a Precipice might as well be 
called a Dropping- Well. Any dry 
Thing the Water covers over with a 
Cruft or Bark of Stone ; but foft, 
fpongy, and fucculent Things (into 
which it can foak and inftnuate itfelf, 
as Mofs, Green Leaves, Earth, ^c.) 
it feems to convert into Stone, or at 
leaft, the Water petrifying in the 
Pores of them, makes the whole feem 
to be Stone. 
Augufi the 5 th, We went to the 
Spaw at HerrigatCy and drank of the 
Water. It is not unpleafant to the 
Tafte, foraewhat acid and vitriolick : 
■ Galls turn it into a dark Blue, fome- 
what 
