started, 
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a rmisica! kind of tinkling, probably owing 
of tlie rock, which, bending in a circular 
fhe bottom to the top, occasions its brow 
about fifteen feet. This rock, which is aboitt 
f ^ 'n k'* forty -eight in length, and from thirty to 
y‘>ttDo„°’'®t<ltli', started, in the year 1704 , from the 
p®, 0 . and left a chasm, from five to nine feet 
^°’’tli(> tvhich the water passes by an aqueduct formed 
purpose. It is clothed with evergreens and oilier 
'' add greatly to the beauty of this very inte- 
(i||Ss is said to abound with fine particles of a 
>011 , 7 ‘b which it deposits, but when in a languid 
Ip, and leaves its incrustations on the leaves, 
it meets with, in trickling thus slowly 
^’^'1(1 j- cavities of the rock. This spring is estimated 
Po |^^‘■'‘^l-h twenty gallons of water in a ininute._ Here 
pieces of moss, blrds'-nests, with their eggs. 
Of' other objects, some of them very curious. 
^Ot, 
V.s.wi' 
c been iucrusted or petrified by the water. 
'1 
to }?^‘uh burns like oil 
WIGAN WELI,. 
mile from Wi gan, in Lancashire, is 
ll. * 1 .1 y'-k 
a spring, the 
- 10 tk '■ applying a lighted 
-5 ^'"rtis surface, a large flame is suddenly produced, 
Up ^ '■■'gorousiy. A dishful of W'ater having been 
Hi u keld whence the flame ismes, and a lighted 
'"a ° flame goes out; notwithstanding 
V On in this part iibils and rises up like water 
In ^0 ti,(j f ■ - - ■ ... 
Wh; 
v.’arni on introducin 
Hit’ ''‘'ll u more extraordinary, on making a 
H<ti> part .flowing of fresh .water to ihe 
cli was already tiiere having been 
dry ^ burning candle being applied to the surface 
same point where tlie water before 
Hie 0 J-'mes take fire, and burn with a resplendent 
Ip, 11 iq u 
Sill,' of the earth 
• Ho 
he,t“ fitmes, tft their ascent, betray any 
One of the flame ascending a foot and a iialf 
It is not discoloured, like 
■'■eous bodies, neither has it any manifest 
air. 
Ihe hitter unquestionably consist of in* 
or hydrogen gas ; and it ought to be ob* 
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