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A54498 A treatise of Lewisham (but vulgarly miscalled Dulwich) wells in Kent shewing the time and manner of their discovery, the minerals with which they are impregnated, the several diseases experience hath found them good for, with directions for the use of them, &c. / by John Peter, physician. Peter, John. 1680 (1680) Wing P1691; ESTC R13465 37,829 138

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corrupted and by this he will be in danger of losing his health For it is certain that the wholesomness and unwholesomeness of Places doth much depend upon the Water they are supplied with as might be here made good by many particular Instances And I leave it to the Enquiery of the diligent Observer Whether upon strict Examination it will not be found that those Towns or Places of Habitation which are supplied with such River-water are not generally far more healthful than others SECT II. Of the Original of Fountains HOw Springs or Fountains are perpetually supplied with Waters hath puzzled many Learned Philosophers both of Ancient and Modern Times Aristotle thought they sprang from Vapours in the Air shut up in the Earth and condensed by Cold. Seneca conceited that the Earth was transmuted into Water others that they come of Rain But to enumerate the several Fautores of the several Opinions and to re-count their Reasons would be here in vain and ineffectual since we have here a more certain Guid to follow a surer word of Prophesie viz. The H. Scripture where we find the doubt elegantly cleared by the infallible Pen of the Preacher Eecl 1. 7. All the Rivers run into the Sea and the Sea is not full unto the place from whence the Rivers come thither they return again Rivers which are nothing else but Fontium Concursus a Concourse of Springs Do all says Solomon run into the Sea and the Sea is not full how comes that to pass Because as Rivers run into the Sea so doth the Sea empty it self by Subterranean Passages into Fountains which by their never failing Streams do constantly supply the Rivers which disembogue themselves into the Sea again Whereby it seems as if to Nature at the first there had been assigned a certain bulk of Water perpetually to perform a Circulation in the Macrocosme Analogical to the Circulation of the Blood and Humours in the Microcosme And I have often thought it somewhat strange that amongst all the Learned and Ingenious Worthies who have imployed themselves to give an account of the manifold Resemblances and Analogies between the greater and the lesser World none should hit upon the Application of the before-said Solamons Circulation to the Microcosme till our famous Doct. Harvy How obvious one would think had it been to those that had their thoughts busied on that Subject to apply the Vessels containing the Blood to the Rivers above and under Ground The Vasa attrahentia deferentia to the Subterterranean Channels and Rivers above Ground the former carrying the Water from the Sea the later returning it thither again How answerable for largeness are those Vessels which are near the Fountain of Blood in the Body to the Channels near the Sea their Fountain Again How Analagous are the Branchings and various Distributions of the Vessels in our Bodies from several Trunks subdivided again into Capillary Branches to convey the Blood and Humours for the Nourishment of the Solid Parts to Rivers Brooks Rivolets and those other lesser Conveyances dispersed both above and under Ground for a supply to Nature for the generation of all Bodies And what proportion doth the Pulse hold to the Tyde of the Sea the Systole to the Ebb the Dyastole to the Flood and the Peristole to the space between And that there are Gulphs and Channels under Ground by which the Sea-water is conveyed is evident when we consider the many great Lakes that have no other way to vent themselves What way can the Caspian Sea be supposed to be exonerated For the huge Rivers Volga Jaxiares Ochus and many other disemboguing themselves therein it must needs vent it self some way or other The Mediterranean Sea into which the Ocean by the Straits of Gibralter and the Fxunine Sea by the Thracian Bosphorus with very many great Rives besides do continually run must needs also discharge it self by Subterranean Gulphs How comes it to pass that some Lakes are full of Sea-Fish and yet are of a great distance from the Sea In Bainoa a Province in Hispaniola is a Lake of Salt Water which hath above Twenty Rivers runing into it yet it never increaseth and it is furnished with Sharkes and many other Sea-fish At Cajela in Italy there is a Mountain towards the South under which the Sea runs with a great noise At Apamaea a City in Phrygia which is far distant from the Sea many new Lakes Fountains and Rivers brake forth about the time of the Mithridatical War one of which was Salt and had an infinite plenty of Sea-Fish and Oysters Besides we read of Channels and Rivers in divers Countries which run a great way on the Earth and then ingulph themselves In the Province of Cazcium in Hispaniela there is a great Cave in an hollow Rock at the bottom of a very high Mountain in which divers Rivers after they have run near an hundred miles pass as into an Indraught What can better salve the contrary Currents of one and the same Sea in several parts than Subterranean Channels as of the Atlantick c Or what can give a more propable account of Whirle-pools in many of which there is such rapid Circumgyrations that if a Ship comes over them they are in great danger of being swallowed up Such an one Andreas Moralis in his Dec. 7. c. 8. tells us that he happened into on the Coast of Hispanicla where the Water was drawn into the Earth with that viclence that with all the Toil and Skill he had the Ship could scarce escape sinkink Again To these Vnder-ground Caverns are referrable most of the many strange and seeming unaccountable things that have been found under Ground especially those that have relation to the Sea as Shells Bones of Fishes Masts parrs of Ships c. Ortelius tells us that at Berna in Switzerland Anno Dom. 46. in a Mine Fifty Fathom deep a Ship was digged up in which were Forty Eight Carcases of Men and much Merchandize And in Greenland out of the Top of a Mountain was a Mast dug with a Pully hanging to it Now a more feasable way for the bringing of these and such like things to such places then by Subterranean Passages from the Sea I do confess I am to seek So that I hope by this time the necessary Supposition of Solomans Macrocosmical Circulation is sufficiently made good viz. That there be Subterranean Caverns within the Bowels of the Earth wherein the Sea-water doth make its reciprocal Frisks and Meanders Now though we are thus as abovesaid infallibly informed of the Original of Fountains for though I must confess that it was not the design of the Holy Ghost in Scripture to teach Natural Philosophy yet however when obiter or by the by he is pleased plainly to drop any Physical truth I hold my self obliged to give my assent thereto and otherways priviledged before all other Opinions in that it hath the most Ancient of Ethnick Philosophers as Plato Thales c. for