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this county, who has diligently ſought for every ſpecies of information,

« On the top of Shooter’s Hill, in the pariſh of Eltham, & 1s a mineral ſpring, which 1s ſaid conſtantly to over- « flow, and never to be frozen in the ſevereft winter, In « the pariſh of Bromley is another, which riſes at the foot «“ of a declivity, at a ſmall diſtance eaſtward from the Bi- «“ ſhop’s palace. The ſoil through which it paſſes is «€ gravel, and it 1flues immediately from a bed of pure « white ſand. The courſe of the ſpring ſeems to be about «“ north north-eaſt and ſouth ſouth-weſt from its aperturez << ¡ts opening is towards the latter; and as Shooter’s Hill c&c bears about north north-eaſt from its aperture, it pro- &< bably comes from thence. The water of this ſpring < being found to be a good chaly beate, was, by the Biſhop's <c orders, immediately ſecured from the mixture of other «““ waters, and incloſed, in hopes that it might prove be= ce nefcial(to ſuch asf ſhould drink 1.«Since Which, « numbers of people, eſpecially of the middling and “ poorer ſort, have been remarkably relieved by it from < various 1infirmities and diſeaſes, which were not only « afäing, but ſome of them dangerous. Above Well- « Place, which 1s a farm-houſe in Penſhurſt Park, there <c 1s a fine ſpring, called Kidder's Well; which, having <c been chymically analyzed, is found to be a fronger «c chalybeate than thoſe called Tunbridge Wells, <c The pariſh of Penſhurft, as well as the neighbouring <6 ones, abounds in veins of iron ore; and moft of thie « ſprings in them are more or leſs chalvbeate. « The whole neighbourhood of Tunbridge Wells « abounds with ſprings of mineral water; but as the ‘< properties of all are nearly the ſame, only thoſe two, « which at the firſt diſcovery of them were adjudged thé é“ beſt, are held in any particular eſtimation. i C23«helle