The water
of this streame washes well, and is good for brewing. I did putt in
craw-fish, but they would not live here: the water is too cold for
them. This river water is so acrimonious, that strange horses when
they are watered here will snuff and snort, and cannot well drinke of
it till they have been for some time used to it. Methinks this water
should bee admirably good for whitening clothes for cloathiers,
because it is impregnated so much with nitre, which is abstersive.
† Bourna, fluvius. (Vener. Bed. Hist. Eceles.) As in some counties
they say, In such or such a vale or dale; so in South Wilts they say,
such or such a bourn: meaning a valley by such a river.
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The river Stour hath its source in Sturton Parke, and gives the name
[Stourhead.-J. B.] to that ancient seat of the Lord Sturtons. Three of
the springs are within the park pale and in Wiltshire; the other three
are without the pale in Somersetshire. The fountaines within the parke
pale are curbed with pierced cylinders of free stone, like tunnes of
chimneys; the diameter of them is eighteen inches. The coate armour of
the Lord Sturton is, Sable, a bend or, between six fountaines; which
doe allude to these springs. Stour is a British word, and signifies a
great water: sc. "dwr" is water; "ysdwr" is a considerable, or great
water: "ys", is "particula augens". [The Stour rises near the junction of
the three counties, Wiltshire, Somersetshire, and Dorsetshire.
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