OF CORNWALL. 3I 
and the fineft tints which the eye can fee, or the pencil imitate, 
are borrowed from clouds. 
By pure Water, I mean that which is moll Ample, taftelefs, clear, sect.viii. 
and inodorous. Or this kind we have great quantities in all parts ° f Wcl!s of 
of Cornwall, but feme Springs are more noted than others. pl ' reWi ' ttr - 
ie .oil round Madcrn Well, in the parilh of Madern, is black , Maddern 
P°ggy> and fight, but tne ftratum through which the Sprint. rifes We,L 
is a grey moorftone gravel, called, by the Cornifh, Grouan. ° Here 
people who labour under pains, aches, and ftiffnefs of limbs, come 
an warn, and many cures are laid to have been performed 1 ' 
although the Water can only aft by its cold and limpid nature’ 
oralmuch as it has no perceivable mineral impregnation. Hither 
alio upon much lefs juftifiable errands come the uneafy, impatient, 
an uperititious, and by dropping pins or pebbles into the Water, 
and by (baking tile ground round the Spring, fo as to raife bubbles 
I0 , m the botton }> at a certain time of the year, Moon, and day, 
endeavour to fettle fuch doubts and enquiries as will not lei 
the idle and anxious reft. Here therefore they come, and 
inftead of allaying, defervedly feed their uneafinefs; the fuppofed 
refponfes ferving equally to increafe the gloom of the melan- 
choly, the fufpicions of the jealous, and the paflion of the ena- 
nne Ur Th r »f f ° f ^ U this ’ tis 3 client 
was' F ™ ntam > and many others among the Grecians, 
was fuppofed o be of a prophetic nature >. By dipping a fair mir- 
ror into a Wei , the Pagans of Greece received, as they fuppofed, 
feme notice of enfuing ficknefs or health, from the various figure! 
pourtrayed upon the furface. In Laconia they call into a pool 
“ kesof bread-corn; if they funk, good was pot! 
dmes ri ; \i taey , fomethin g dreadful was to enfue *. Some- 
cluiion ft hr T 'r 1,66 , loneS lnt0 the Water > and fonned their con- 
ons from the feveral turns they made in finking •. 
fame T ^ ^“7** “ theE ”"^"- 
do-i- remarkable ■ , ' e 1 and as a Wlt nefs of its having 
St F, hms ft es ’ a c ha , S a cha P el aJ j° inin g to it. dedicated to 
b Jr V t . ’ . 7 as °l whlch ’ confining of much carved Hone, 
fcpeak it co have been formerly of no little note. The Water has 
for-sT?^ 3 - 1011 ° '.’ mg humours, as well as healing wounds and 
neitl-i ' . C . n ° p eic - iv'able evidence of any mineral impregnation; 
neitner nced it to produce the effefts attributed to it, for cettab 
wounHQ la f tllC ~ co < ^ ne ^ s Water will work furprizing cures; 
1 - > ores 5 aches, difordered eyes, and the like, are often cured 
* P^ eI 3 - y lb. 296. 
Vol. 1. P 1 ctt - Gr - AntI gu. page 288. * lb. 350. 
11 Commonly called Chapel-Euny. 
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