"- I did it transient, and full
of businesse, and "aliud agens tanquam canis e Nilo".
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The freestone fountaine above Lacock, neer Bowdon, in the rode-way, is
higher than the toppe of Lacock steeple. Sir J. Talbot might have for
a small matter the highest and noblest Jeddeau [jet-d'eau] in England.
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It is at the foot of St. Anne's-hill, or else Martinsoll-hill, {that}
three springs have their source and origen; viz. the south Avon, which
runnes to Sarum, and disembogues at Christes Church in Hants; the
river Kynet, which runnes to Morlebrugh, Hungerford, and disembogues
into the Thames about Reading; and on the foote of the north side
arises another that runnes to Calne, which disembogues into the north
Avon about Titherton, and runnes to Bristowe into the Severne. [See
also Chap. III. Rivers.-J. B.]
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In the parish of....... is a spring dedicated to St. Winifred,
formerly of great account for its soveraigne vertues. What they were I
cannot learne; neither can I thinke the spring to be of less vertue
now than in the time of Harry the Eight; in which age I am informed it
was of great esteeme: and I am apt to conjecture that the reason why
the spring grew out of fame was because S*. Winifred grew out of
favour.
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At the Devizes, on the north side of the castle, there is a rivulet of
water which doth petrifie leafes, sticks, plants, and other things
that grow by it; which doth seem to prove that stones grow not by
apposition only, as the Aristotelians assert, but by susception also;
for if the stick did not suscept some vertue by which it is transmuted
we may admire what doth become of the matter of the stick
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At Knahill [Knoyle] is a minerall water, which Dr.
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