lib. xv.
In Grittleton field is a swallow-hole, where sometimes foxes, &c. doe
take sanctuary; there are severall such in North Wiltshire, made by
flouds, &c.; but neer Deene is a rivulet that runnes into Emmes-poole,
and nobody knowes what becomes of it after it is swallowed by the
earth.
[The reader will find a full account of the remarkable "swallows", or
"swallow holes", in the course of the river Mole, in Brayley's History
of Surrey, vol. i. p. 171-185, with a map, and some geological
comments by Dr. Mantell. The river, or stream designated by Aubrey as
the Deverill, is probably the principal of several streams which rise
near the villages of Longbridge Deverill, Hill Deverill, Brixton
Deverill, Monkton Deverill, and Kingston Deverill (in the south west
part of Wiltshire), and, after running through Maiden Bradley, flow
into the Wyley near Warminster.-J. B.]
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At the foot of Martinsoll-hill doe issue forth three springs, which
are the sources of three rivers; they divide like the parting of the
haire on the crowne of the head, and take their courses three severall
wayes: viz. one on the south side of the hill, which is the beginning
of the upper Avon,† which runnes to Salisbury; on the other side
springes the river Kynet, which runnes eastward to Marleborough;‡ from
thence passing by Hungerford, Newbury, &c. it looses itselfe and name
in the river of Thames, near Reading.
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