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have found a mire ten foot deep: without the North-gate, the higest place of the Town, at seaven. The Earth between is a kind of rubbish; sometimes they find pitching a mans length vnder ground, and passages for the water to pass: 7. or 8. foot down they have met with Oyster-shells.
5. The Town and Country circumjacent, generally abound with cold Springs: and in some places the hot and cold arise very near each other 3 in one place, within two yards, and in others, within 8. or 9. of the main Bathes.
6. The Guides of the Cross-Bath informe me, that, when there is a great West-wind abroad, standing by the Springs they feel a cold air arising from beneath: if the Wind be at East, and the morning close with a little misling rain, the Cross-Bath is so hot as scarce to be endur'd, when the Kings- and Hot-Baths are colder than usual. In other winds let the weather be how it will, this Bath is temperate. The Springs that buble most are coldest. The Cross-Bath fills in 16. hours, both in Winter and Summer, without any difference from heat or cold, flouds or drought. That of the Kings, in 12. or 14.
7. A man may better (ordinarily) endure 4. hours bathing in the Cross-Bath, than 1½ in the others. In the, Queens Bath (which hath no Springs of its own; but comes all out of the Kings) they have found under a flat stone, which upon occasion was taken up, a Tunnel, and a yeelding mudd in and under it, into which they thrust a pike, but could feel no bottom. In the Kings-bath there is a Spring so hot, that it is scarce sufferahle, so that they are fain to turn much of it away, for fear of inflaming the Bath. The hottest Spring will not harden an Egge.
8. The Bath-water does not pass through the body like other Minerall waters; but if you put in Salt, it purgeth presently. Upon setlement it affords a black mudd, usefull in aiches, applyed by way of Cataplasme; to some more succesfull then the very waters. The like it deposits upon Distillation, and no other. Nor hath any more been discovered upon all the Chymical examinations, that have come to our knowledge. One Dr Astendoff found, that the colour of the Salt, drawn from the Kings- and Hot-bath, was yellow; that, which was
