3;)4 SPKING3 AND WELI.S. 
well known to every medical practitioner, 
hundreds of recorded instances ; 
and 
that is to say, ^ 1#, 
in the means proposed for lier cure, wronght_ 
pitch by her religion, and by the assiiranpes oi i 
she was accustomed to defer. We think, ne'e , j.i' , 
tlie publication of this ‘ Case of JFinefrid ? 
strongly of religious empiricism, and is exactly 
the ‘ cases of cure ' which w'e every da)'' sec * . ^ ji) 'j, 
all the newspapers. We refrain from treating 
til® ■ 
«irx ixAV ixw VT 1 “ * — ' . , (,/• * U' 
theologically, yet it appears to us tliat r 
ttersc 24, pioves that 'signs and wonders' if® Jj f' 
but ttiaybet^®^,.^^^^ 
evidence of divine interposition 
‘ false prophets, so as to deceive tlie very 
continuance of miraculous powers will befounn>^j-,ij.;; , 
to depend on o'Jter circumstances than the (,iiis y 
1'hey disappear wherever tiie printing-press 
freely used, and, by its agency, fixes all the 
that attend them f and they still continue to flo" pefy ' 
the liistory of the circumstances depends for ® 'fjijiti’ ^ 
traditional evidence. Miracles are, therefore, .Aj.trrn®?' ‘ 
abundance, even in our days, among the S®i’l,()'' 
Hottentots, tlie CafFrees, the Tartars, th® ^ 
Islanders, and the Indians of the two AroeriC"''’ ^ 
W'e believe on record are to be found i’’ ja 
M. Elpliinstone’s published Embassy to piXt 
he states that the sick were carried after 
journey; and, at page 28, he says, ‘some 
could raise the dead ; and there was a story '' 
had made and animated a wooden ram at J- _ 
we had sold him as a ram; and that it ^y'’,%f 
purchaser began to eat him, that the matery g[[P 
was made was discovered.'— -We forbear,’ sn)’ 
“ to press the subject further.” 
DROPPING WEl-L AT KNARE.SBOlh’'^ mK 
, .1 
ris®* .. |i>' 
This dropping well, or petrifying spring; 
of a limestone rock, at an ' 
.raying spuug, • ji .■ 
inconsiderable ois 
nu .„ii 
bank of the river Nidd. The spring, ^ inf, 
sixty feet, divides, and spreads itself over d 
rock, wjience it trickles very fast, trom 
places, into a channel lioUowed lor the 
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