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MISCELLANEOUS SUBJECTS. 
1)"‘, 
this time the colliciy has been regularly at work 
ninety-second body has never yet been found. 
- • ■ ■ - in singl'^ k’W 
persons, except four, who were buried in sing 
were interred in Hewortli Chapel-yard, in a trcn 
side, two coffins deep, widi a partition 
between every four coffins. 
of brick 
MISCELLANEOUS SUBJECTS CO^ 
WITH.AIINERALOGY 
CLIFTON HOT-WELL. 
The warm spring, or fountain, called the 
the parish of Clifton, is said to be so copious ji'i 5 ‘|,( 
sixty gallons of water in a minute. It rises f 
aperture in the solid rock, at about twenty-sis 
high-water mai’k, and ten feet above low- 
immediate influx from the rock, the water is nin jjo 
than when it is pumped up for diinkings 
and tastes warmer in winter tlian in sumiuer> .. 
cold days heals the glass into which it falls iP^^ V 
In 1695, this celebrated spring', after having ‘ 
lect, was recovered, and tlie Hotwell-house ere ' 1 , 
foundations being made for the pumps, by whicb;>iv; 
is raised to the iieight of thirty feet : pipes af 
JS UliJSCU lU UlU llClgiJL Ut UlUL^ ICCL ; •. a(f 
through which the waste water runs into the ri''^„(gf; 
tliese pipes are valves, whicli open to let out the . • .ji 
shut when the tide is coming in. 

natural to suppose that, in its subterraneous 
the^ rocks, over different strata, and among 
mineral and other substances, it must be impr‘'®fgr 
With respect to the qualities of this rninei-^^g 
their several wrtnes. In the common spring 
neighbouring rock-house, on a trial being i*'! 
cury in Fahrenheit’s thermometer stood at j 
■while that of the Hotwell, taken immedia^‘^^ tii* I, 
raised it to seventy-six degrees ; and 
pump, 
of a person in health seldom exceeds the , 
gree, it follows, that the Bristol water possess® 
more than three- fourtlis of the human nt 
Below the Hotwell-liouse rises a niaguui*-® 
