But when I came neer to the place I could
not discern it: so I went back a convenient distance and saw it again;
and then tooke notice of some flower or weed that grew in the ditch
whence the vapour came. I came againe to the marke, and could see
nothing of a mist, as before; but my nose was affected with a smell
which I knew; but immediately it came not to my mind; which was the
smell of the canales that come from the bathes at Bath. By this time
my groom was come to me, who, though of a dull understanding, his
senses were very quick; I asked him if he smelt nothing, and after a
sniff or two, he answered me, he smelt the smell of the Bath. This
place is about two parts of three of the descent of Dundery-hill,
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I doe believe the water of the fountaine that serves Lacock abbey is
impregnated with {symbol for mars}[iron]. That at Crokerton, near
Warminster, I thinke not at all inferior to those of Colbec in France.
The best felt hatts are made at both places.
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At or near Lavington is a good salt spring. (From ye Earl of
Abingdon.)
The North Wilts horses, and other stranger horses, when they come to
drinke of the water of Chalke-river, they will sniff and snort, it is
so cold and tort I suppose being so much impregnated with {alchemical
sign for nitre} [nitre].
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Advise my countrymen to try the rest of the waters as the Sieur Du
Clos, Physitian to his most Christian Majestie, has donne, and hath
directed in his booke called " Observations of the Minerall Waters of
France made in ye Academy of Sciences.
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