At High-worth, Mr.
Alhnon, apothecary, told him he had often seen a quantity of milke
coagulated with it: and yet the common people brew with it, which
gives their beer an ungratefull tast. At Cricklad their water is so
very salt that the whole town are obliged to have recourse to a river
hard by for their necessary uses. At Wootton Basset, at some small
distance from the town, they have a medicinall spring, which a
neighbouring divine told him Dr. Willis had given his judgment of,
viz. that it was the same with that of Astrop. They have also a
petrifying spring. At the Devizes, about a quarter of a mile from the
towne, a petrifying spring shewn me by Dr. Merriweather, a physitian
there. At Bagshot, near Hungerford, is a chalybiate, dranke by some
gentlemen with good successe.
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Mdm. In my journey to Oxford, comeing through Bagley-wood, on St.
Mark's day, 1695,1 discovered two chalybiate springs there, in the
highway; which On May the 10th I tryed with powder of galles, and they
give as black a tincture as ever I saw such waters: one may write with
it as legibly as with black lead.
At the gate at Wotton Common, near Cumnor in Berkshire, is a spring
which I have great reason to believe is such another: and also at the
foot of Shotover-hill, near the upping-stock, I am confident by the
clay, is such another spring. Deo gratias.
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Qu?res for the Tryall of Minerall Waters; by the Honourable Sir
William Petty, Kt.
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