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ebbing and flowing stream at Bridlington. 
elucidated, by a more perfect acquaintance with the pecu- 
liarities of the springs on this part of the coast, provincially 
termed gipsies. The water in this district of the east riding 
of Yorkshire, possesses that limpidness which is usual in cre- 
taceous soils; but for many miles of the Wolds behind Brid- 
lington, very little water is to be seen. There are few rivulets, 
and these are very low in the summer, and most of them 
quite dry in autumn. The account to be collected from the 
inhabitants is, that in two or three weeks after the commence- 
ment of frost, the springs begin to run copiously ; and in 
many, the water is projected with such impetuosity, as to 
resemble a jet d’eau ; it is then that, in the language of the 
country, it is said, “ the gipsies are up/’ and the rivulets 
overflow. 
JOHN STORER, 
Nottingham, Nov. 5, 1814. 
Drawn up from Notes taken at the time, and on the spot. 
