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MAGAZINE 
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MONTHLY 
No, 120. | 
Yo the Editor of the 
SIR, 
N a late trip to the north-eaftern part 
of Hertfordthire, I paid a vifit to the 
village of A/bwwell, a place inhabited by a 
confiderable number of reputable farmers, 
t afforded me two or three objeéts of cu- 
rioity, an account of which may, per- 
haps, give fome entertainment to your 
readers. J fhall premife, that a fire foon 
a‘ter iaft harveft made great ravages in 
this village, deftroying feveral farm-houfs, 
with their corn-ricks, &c. and a number 
of cottages; but I obferved with pleafure, 
that moit of them were re-built in a neat 
and fubftantial manner; and coubtlefs, 
like other places, it will be improved by 
the dialer. 
The church of Afhwel! is a ftone ftruc= 
ture of remarkable fize and firength, hav- 
ing a lofty and mafiy tower, furmounted 
by a fimall fpire. It would be a very con- 
{picuous object from all the furrounding 
country, were it not built in a low fitua- 
tion. Among the monuments within the 
, church, I copied the following, which 
feemcd to me deferving cf notice, as well 
for its fentiment, as its elegant Latinity : 
Monthly Magazine. 
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*¢ Haud procul muito cum majorum [ci- 
nere} mifcetur cinis M™i East Barry de 
Glyton infra hanc parochiam, qui, durn 
LXII. #tatis annum ageret, peripneumonia 
correptus, animam leniter efllavit, x1. kal. 
Apr. M.D.¢cXvilI. Honoris infignia & genus 
fi nofcas hofpes, fcias, finceram erga Deum 
> > 
pietatem & illibatos mores, omni flemmate 
nobiliorem ei curonam in celis (annuente 
Deo, O. M ) effe comparaturus.” 
From another tombftone, it appears that 
he was a fellow of Chiit College, Cam- 
bridge. | 
‘Near the church is a {mall glen or dell, 
the upper end of which is terminated by a 
fieep rocky bank, from tie feot of which 
gufh out the moft remarkable affemblage 
of fprings that I remember to have be« 
held. In a femicircular fpace of about 
forty ‘or fifty yards, twelve or thirteen 
diftinét rills are feen to guth from the rock, 
bubbling up at their fonrce with great 
biifkneis, and as clear as cryftal. They 
foon run together; and, at length, ferm 
one ftream, which is copious enovgh to 
turn a mill about a hundred yards below. 
Montury Maa, No, 120. 
OCTOBER 1, 1804. 
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(3, of Vou. 18. 
ORIGINAL COMMUNICATIONS. 
They are never quite dry, but are ob- 
ferved to he moft abundant in the fummer, 
increafing and dicreafing with the length 
of days. The country bebind ther rifles 
into hilly chalky downs. 
About two miles fiom Afliweil is Od- 
Jey, \ong famed for iis courfe, a two miles” 
run over a fine down. The races once 
held there, have. been for fome time 
at anend, and the courfe is plowed up. 
The open country here extends to Roy- 
fon, and thence through Cambridgefhire, 
and into Norfolk and Suffolk. Odtey- 
houfe isa fmal! manfion built by a Duke 
of Devorfhire, fur the purpofe of feeing 
his hories trained cn the neighbouring 
courfe, juft betore his windows. It is 
now a farm-houfe, occupied by one of the 
numerous and refpectable family of Ford- 
ham, long ferttled in thefe parts. The 
duke’s bed-chamber and an adjoining 
diawing-room are good apartments, fitted 
up in the ftyle of 60 or &6 years ago. 
A range of ikadling, and other out-build- 
ings, remain in their former ftate. The 
country round is fomewhat dreary, but 
affords fine turf for equettrian exercifes, 
with pure air, Iam, youn’s, &c. 
JeA, 
—ae , 
To the Editor of the Monthly Magazine. 
SIR> 
STATED in your valuable Magazine, 
the beginning of this year, that I had 
difcovered a new faline {pring at Cheltens 
ham; I now beg leave to inform the public, 
through the fame channel, of the progre{s 
that has fince been made with refpect to 
it. , 
During the fummer, a pump was fixed 
in the well, which works with great eafe 
at the depth of 40 feet; and it is now cos 
vered over by a temporary building for 
the accommodaticn of the drinkers. It 
has been open to the public for the laft 
fortnight, and is fo generally approved of, 
that more than two hogtheads of water 
are ccnfumed every morming. 
It is fituated upon an elevated fpot of 
ground, «which commands a beautiful 
profpect of the town, difiant 300 yards 
from the ald well, in the lane leading ta 
Badgewerth ; and has a convenient foot- 
path through the fields adjoining the lane. 
5s 
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