1810.] , ecount of a Medicinal Spring in Lancashtre. 
conduced but abstinence (to which I 
wish I had resolution enough uniformly 
to adhere), together with a careful pro- 
tection of the body against cold or 
dainp, or any sudden vicissitudes of the 
weather. VERAX. 
London, Sept. 8, 1810. 
ei 
Lo the Editor of the Monthly Magazine. 
SIR, 
S a reader of your useful and enter- 
taining publication, I am induced 
tu send you an account of a medicinal 
spring, which, from its obscurity, is 
hardly known; and from the want of that 
knowledge, many are deprived of the 
great benefits to be derived from the use 
of it. The spring or well, I allude to, 
is called Holywell, about two miles from 
Flookborough, a small village-in the 
parish of Cartmei, Lancashire, near to a 
very ancient building, Wrerysholme 
Tower, the rock adjoining to which the 
water appears to spring from the bottom 
of, and is sold at a very cheap rate by a 
person residing in a hut, who is little 
acquainted with the value of the qualities 
it possesses, to those afilicted with 
scurvy or any cutaneous disease. The 
benefits derived by the drinking of it, to 
numbers in that neighbourhood, as well 
as in other parts‘of the county, induces 
me to make it better known, that those, 
unfurtunately afflicted, may receive that 
relief so many of their fellow-sufferers 
have done, - 
The accomodations at Flookborough 
are verygood, The beauties of rural sce- 
nery have been so well described by 
tourists who have visited that part of the 
north, and more especially those of 
Winanderm (about six miles distant,) 
that no description of mine would be 
adequate; I will only claim particular 
attention to that beautiful edifice, Cart- 
mel Church, formerly a priory of Austin 
Canons, founded in 1188, and purchased 
by the parishioners at the Dissolution: the 
choir is well worthy of notice, 
ily Place, Aug. 22, 1810. Oi dd 
To the Editor of the Monthly Magazine. 
STR. . 
A, LETTER which appeared in your 
Magazine of last month, lays me 
under the necessity of troubling you with 
the following in answer. Mr. Thelwall, 
-a person of whom I know ncthing but 
by common report, whose works as an 
author I have never seen, further than to 
giance at his prospectus and terms; 
whose lecture-room my curiosity never 
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led me to visit a second times; and the 
only time I did go, is so long passed, 
that I remember not even the subject 
of the lecture; this gentleman accuses 
me-of having marred, altered, and ape 
propriated, in a work of mine lately pube 
lished, certain doctrines and discoveries 
which he has, for several yéars, been. 
propounding to the public. I own I feel 
indiynant at the accusation, not because. 
T have any exclusive claim to the prins. 
eiples on which the work is grounded 
(for my grammar is avowedly a compila- 
tion,) bat because Mr. T., for reasons 
best known to himself, ‘would insinuate 
that lam walking,and only lamely walking, 
in his steps, and would Jay claim to what, 
if not mine, most certainly is not his. 
Sofar am T, sir, from desiring to be seen 
in the rays of Mr. T.’s notoriety, that 
there is nothing I. should more strenu- 
ously avoid. ‘The pretensions I make are 
not the same, neither does it appear, 
from what little I have heard and seen 
of Mr. 'T., that we should choose, as 
teachers of delivery, to be judzed by 
the same standard of opinion, His pu- 
pils, therefore, will never be mine; nor, 
1 believe, will mine be his. Impressed 
with, and willing to preserve, this distinc. 
tion, it was not likely I should trespass 
on grounds belonging exclusively to Mr. 
Phelwall.—I have not done so. There 
is not a single portion of my book which 
is not founded on the authority of one or 
other of those respectable orthoepists, 
Walker, Herries, Nares, Sheridan, and 
Rice. Iam no theorist, bewildering my. 
own and others’ brains by new specus 
Jations, but travel in a plain and beaten ~ 
tract. The work itself will prové the 
assertion.* Confident that those wri- 
ters only were my gnides, protesting that 
I never’ entertained an idea of deriving 
assistauce from any thing Mr. T. hath 
said or written, Istand astonished at the 
absolute effrontery of his claims. My 
first chapter ‘*On Sounds,” 18 derived 
from the Elements of Speech, by Mr. 
Herries, with such modifications as were’ 
dictated by the works of Walker and 
Sheridan. The second chapter “On 
Letters,” is indebted almost wholly to the 
Principles of English Prouunciation, pre- 
* I would by no means insinuate that - 
much may no yet be done towards the 
tuition of whatever relates to audible lane 
guage ; and the improvements lately made in 
teaching the deaf and dumb, prove that every 
encouragement should be given in this respect 
to men of science, 
fixed 
