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which is about a hundred yards higher upon the 
hill, is chiefly applied to the eyes ; and the other 
ufed internally, in feveral Scorbutic and other dis- 
orders ; or externally to tumors and fores. This 
diftindtion is taken notice of by almofl every writer,, 
who has treated on the geography or natural hiftory 
of this county j and yet there does not, from any expe- 
riment, appear to be any real difference between them. 
The Springs are not encreafed or diminished very 
fenfibly, e ther by rains, or drought ; and yet the 
water certainly receives Some alteration from the 
variety of the weather becaufe it has been obferved 
by thofe, who have wafhed their fores at the Spring, 
that the water does not fo well agree with them af- 
ter heavy rains, or fierce fhowers, as in clear fettled 
weather ; which probably is owing to the admix- 
ture of Some extraneous fubflance with the water. 
This alfo may be the reafon, why, in Some later ex- 
periments, the water has appeared to contain more 
earth than it did in thofe 1 formerly made, when 
the feafon was much drier than it has been for Some 
years laft paft. 
The water, upon its firft ufe, purges moft per- 
fons, and that pretty brifkly, if the quantity they 
drink be considerable ; Some it vomits, but without 
much fi’cknefs ; but it is diuretic in all. It has been 
long ufed, both externally and internally, with very 
great fuccefs, particularly in old foul ulcers, disor- 
ders of the eye3, fcrophula’s, leprofies and other 
difeafes of the fkin. Many wonderful cures I have 
been myfelf witnefs to in each of thefe cafes. 
Mr. G S , a mercer of this town, when he 
was young, had a fcrophulous ulcer in the elbow, 
which 
