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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
book_n	drink_v	fountain_n	giddy_a	12	3	17.3703	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A18028	Geographie delineated forth in two bookes Containing the sphericall and topicall parts thereof, by Nathanael Carpenter, Fellow of Exceter Colledge in Oxford.	Carpenter, Nathanael, 1589-1628?	1635 (1635)	STC 4677; ESTC S107604	387,148	599

waues keeps his owne channell and renders the shipp-men fresh water betwixt the sea waters for the distance of eight hūdred thousand paces Other great riuers are disburthened into the sea by diuers Ostia or Inletts as Rhene into the Germane Ocean by three Danubius into the Pontick sea by 6 Indus into the Iud●an sea by 7 Nilus into the Mediterranean by 7 great and famous passages Volga into the Caspian lake by 72 gates These are the most remarkeable others we shall supply in our historicall part 5 Diuerse fountaines are endowed with diuerse admirable vertues and operations There is nothing wherein Nature delighteth more in miraculous variety then in fountaines and springs of the earth Of these admirable workes of nature being infinite in these springs I will touch some Which the better to effect I will reduce all to these heads 1 Their qualities and operations 2 their motiōs For the former we will produce some sew instāces It is reported that neere the Garamantes there is a fountaine so cold in the dayes that no man can drinke thereof so hot in the nights that no man can abide to touch it There is another in India wherein a candle will burne There is also another called heretofore the well of Iupiter Hammon which in the morning is luke-warme at noone col● in the euening Hot at midnight boiling hot From whence againe it begins to asswage till the morning and so as it were by turne it growes hot and cold a matter of great admiration Some fountaines in Liguria Paphlagonia being drunke will make the head giddy as if he had drunke wine Another fountaine in Aranea a part of Arcadia being drunke will so affect the tast that who drinke it shall neuer afterward endure the tast of wine which was very like the fountain Clitorius whereof Ouid in his Metamorphosis the last booke sings in this manner Clitorio quiounque sitim de fonte leu●●is Vina fugit gaudetque meris abstemius vndis The ancients haue also recorded that in Boeotia neere the riuer Orchomenon are two fountaines whereof the one gets memory the other causeth obli●io● There is in the Iland Cea a fountaine making the senses dull another in Aethiopia whereon the Water drunken will make a man mad Some water absolutely kils him which drinkes as the riuer Styx in Arcadia being a venemous fretting poison and therefore by the poets fained to be one of the riuers in Hell Diuers other riuers are profitable to cure diuers diseases of the body whereof I need not bring any instances because such new-found wells are sometimes discouered ●●ongst vs here at home There are 2 riuers in B●eotia of admirable vertue whereof the former if a sheep drinke of it he will become yellow but if a sheep of a dunne or yellow colour drinke of the other he wil become white Riuers which make sheep white coloured besides are Neleus in Euboea Aliac●●on in Macedonia Crathris in Thurijs so Cerius in Euboea Auxius in Macedonia Peneas in Thessaly will make them blacke 〈◊〉 will cause whitenesse in oxen So the riuer Astaces in Ponti●● waters the land whereby mares haue their milke blacke Amongst the regions of the Troglodites there is a well which thrice a day will become sweet and bitter and againe returne to his former sweetnesse and so often againe in the night This may suffice to shew the variety of operations in these wells in respect of other creatures No lesse admirable variety is discouered in obseruing of their diuerse motions For some riuers ouerflowe their bankes at some certaine times of the yeare 〈◊〉 Nilus in Egypt Euphrates in Mesopotania Ind●● in Indi● some fountaines are carried with such violence that they cast vp stones as M●rsia in Phrygia and expell any weight as a certaine one in Arabia whereof the like was recorded to be in Portugall some will swallow vp any thing ●●●owne into them as one in Portugall if we beleeue Pliny some others although they are cold will seeth and seeme to boil● a● the water o● the fire yet neuer cast out their water beyond their b●nk●● but straight-way swallow it vp againe as Acidula in Alb●g●●● and ●nother fountaine in Cappidoci● named Tia●● some there are which sometimes rise and swell and other times fall againe of their owne accord as Crater of 〈◊〉 and a fountaine in Italy called Ph●iana some wells imitate the ●bbing and flowing of the sea in all encreases and dimi●utions as one in Cale● and the other neare Burdeaux in France some are contrariwise affected to the ebbing flowing of the sea flowing when the sea ●bbs and ●bbing when the sea flowes as certaine Pits in Spaine some encrease and diminish without any consent or agreement with the motion of the sea as a Well in Tenodus an Iland neere Troy In Cantabria are three fountaines distant 8 foot the one from the other and falling into one Channell in a vast riuer which euery day are dry twelue times and sometimes twenty times others of their own accord purge cleanse themselues casting out wood clay durt and other matters wherewith they are defiled as a Well in the Chersonesus of Rhodes These and many more remarkeable instances haue our naturall Historians gathered together whereof though some perhaps may bee thought to be forged of Poets for pleasure or mistaken for want of good discouery and obseruation yet must wee not wrong Antiquity so much as to reiect all hauing in this subiect enough to wonder at in ourowne Country 6 Places neare great Riuers and Lakes are most commodious for habitation It hath bin the custome of all times and nations almost in the world to choose out for a choice place for building of cities their habitation neere some great Lake Riuer or Arme of the Sea which sprang from the common obseruation of Men who found such places to be more conuenient This conueniency is shewed many wayes first because by meanes of such water they haue quick passage and trafficke with other Nations being able with more ease both to receiue to send forth wares and merchandize Whence we see that such cities as are seated vpon the water are commonly of all other the richest whereof we may giue an instance almost in euery countrey as of Seuill and Lisbone in Spaine Portugall of all the Cities almost of the Low-countries of Paris in France whence no doubt grew that English Prouerbe That the Sea is a good neighbour which may aswell be vnderstood of any nauigable Riuer Secondly such a site is most conuenient for the purging away of all filth and excrements which could not with the like conueniency bee so soone transported by land whence many men haue laboured to transport riuers far remote vnto Cities Thirdly because such riuers and wa●ry lakes yeeld store of fish whereby the Inhabitants may be nourished and other creatures the better preserued Fourthly no small commodity would accrow to a Cyty by water neare adioyning If it should chance