Whether it damps or excites venerie ?
26. How blood lett whilest the waters are dranke lookes, and how it
changes ?
27. In what degrees it purges, in different degrees of evaporation,
and brewed ?
28. Whether it breakes away by eructation and downwards ?
29. Whether it kills the asparagus in the urine?
30. What quantity may be taken of it in prime ?
31. Whether a sprig of mint or willow growes equally as out of other
waters?
32. In what time they putrify and stink ?
CHAPTER III.
RIVERS.
[THE following extracts include the whole of this chapter, with the
exception of a few extraneous passages.-J. B.]
I SHALL begin with the river of Wyley-bourn, which gives name to
Wilton, the shire town. The mappe-makers write it Wyley fulvous, and
joiner a British and a Saxon word together: but that is a received
error. I doe believe that the ancient and true name was Twy, as the
river Twy in Herefordshire, which signifies vagary: and so this river
Wye, which is fed with the Deverill springs, in its mandrels winding,
watering the meadows, gives the name to the village called Wyley, as
also Wilton (Wyley-ton); where, meeting with the upper Avon and the
river Adder, it runnes to Downtown and Fording bridge, visiting the New
Forest, and disembogues into the sea at Christ Church in Hampshire. On
Monday morning, the 20th of September, [1669] was begun a well
intended designe for cutting the river [Avon] below Salisbury to make
it navigable to carry boats of burthen to and from Christ Church.
Pages:
54
55
56
57
58
59
60
61
62
63
64
65
66
67
68
69
70
71
72
73
74
75
76
77
78