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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

them into a belief of the Worlds Creation by the Almighty God Hither may be referred that of Rabbi Bechai as translated by Buxtorf in Lexic Accepit Deus Benedictus ignem aquam permiscuit ista invicem ex illis facti sunt Coeli i.e. The blessed God took Fire and Water and mixing them together made the Heavens So that if by the word translated Heaven we have found Fire and Water the next word in the Text being the Earth we have gained the time of the Creation of the Elements Fire Water and Earth answerable to the Hermetick Principles of Sulphur Mercury and Salt And further that Water was signified by Moses to be created in the Beginning is evident by the words of the next Verse where Water is mentioned under the word Deep without any intimation of any new Creation but as it were taken for granted that it was created in the Beginning that the word Deep in Scripture Stile is often used for deep Waters or Seas is very obvious as only to instance in that one place of the Royal Psalmist speaking of the Creation of the Earth Psalm 104.6 Thou coverest it with the Deep as with a Garment From whence it is evident that there was not one Homogeneous Mass of Matter created in the Beginning but one Body expresly distinguisht into several Heterogeneous Members which were distinct and separate in their Scituations and not confounded together It was as Natural for the Water to be every where about the Earth as the Air to be every where about the Terraqueous Globe the Aether to be about the Air and the Super-Aether above all which is elegantly expressed by the Prophet Amos chap. 9.6 It is he that hath builded his Stories in the Heavens c. From which Original Scituation of the Elements we may collect that their several Bodies of Matter were proportionable the Matter of Earth most dense and therefore lowest the Matter of Water less dense and therefore above the Earth the Matter of Air more rare and therefore above the Water the Matter of Aether more rare and therefore above all other Elements next to the Super-Aether which is mo t rare and so fittest for the Habitation of pure Spirits Now the said Elements which were created in the Beginning were then endued with their proper Elementary Spirits pure and unmixt which receiving Disposition by the Holy Spirit did produce their proper Qualities gradually and successively à potentia in actum whereupon the simple Qualities of Driness and Moisture in the Earth and Water did not actually exist till the third day at which time God call'd the Dry Land Earth and the gathering together of the Waters call'd he Seas The Element of Water is elegantly set out by Pliny lib c Hoc Elementum caeteris omnibus imperat terras devorant Aquae flammas necant scandunt in sublime caelum sibi quoque vindicant c. This Element challengeth a kind of rule over all the rest it devours the Earth extinguishes Fire it aspires even unto Heaven and doth as it were not only clime up thither it self alone but it carries with it whole Sholes of Fishes heaps of Stones and divers other heavy Substances which afterwards fall down again with it thus far Pliny This is so necessary an Element that no living Creature can subsist without it How wonderfully are all Vegetables enlivened the Spirits of Animals refresh'd with the vivifying Humidity and Balsamick Vertue wherewith it is impregnated by its Digestion in the Clouds Hence it was perhaps that Thales Milesius one of the seven Sages of Greece and Empedocles do both agree that Water is the sole Principle of all things the Spagyrick Masters go not quite so far who affirm it to be the material Principle of all Concrete Bodies As to the manifold and wonderous Vertues of Waters which Authors of good Credit do relate it would be an Herculean Labour to recite them all I shall therefore only for the Readers Curiosity and Delight recount the most admirable and unusual of them which for Methods sake I shall speak to in this order 1. Of the Coldness and Heat of some Waters 2. Of their Taste and Smell 3. Of their various Colours 4. Of their divers Currents or Runnings 5. Of their change of Quantity and Quality 6. Of some other Things remarkable in Waters 1. As to the First In Corinth there is a Fountain of Water which is always Colder than Snow Ptol. Com. Lib. 7. Pliny reports that there is a certain Fountain issuing out of the Mountain Nonacris in Arcadia that is of so cold a Quality Vtpote cum profluens ipsa lapidescat i.e. That as it springs out it is converted into Stone Lib. 31. c. 2. There also he tells us of certain Springs call'd Posidianae near the City Baiae in Campania whose Waters are so hot that they boil their Meat commonly therein Near the Sea Banks of Cuba there is a River so large that it is Navigable and yet it is so hot that one cannot endure to touch it Martyr Sum. Ind. And as Ramus relates Tom. 3. There is a Spring near the Province of Tapala which runs so hot that one cannot pass over it here we ought not to omit our hot Baths at the Bath in Somersetshire The hot Spring issuing out of St. Vincents Rock near Bristol and other Instances of this nature which this our Isle doth produce might here be particularized if it were necessary 2. In the Taste and Smell of Waters there is great variety Aristotle writes of a Well in Sicily whose Water is so sowr that the Inhabitants commonly make use of it instead of Vinegar The Waters of Eleus and Chocops for Deliciousness and Sweetness were famous amongst the Persian Rings and of them they much used to drink Johnst Cl. 2. c. 3. The Water of Cardia is sweeter than warm Milk and so is Vinosa near to Paphlagenia where multitudes of Strangers come to drink of it Johnst ibid. The small Fountain Exampeus in Scythia is so bitter that it taints the sweet Streams of the River Hypanus after it hath run sweetly Forty miles Ibid. In the bottom of the Adriatick Sea which turns to Aquelia there be Seven Fountains and Six of them are very Salt Polyb Hist But of the Saltness of Fountains we need no further instance than our Salt Springs at the Witches in Cheshire The wonderous pleasantness of the smell of Cabura a Spring in Mesophtamia hath occasioned the Fable of Juno's bathing her self therein Plinie lib. 31. c. 3. The hot Baths that are distant from Rhegium 26 miles smell of so gallant a Bitumen that they seem to be mingled with Camphire Johnst Cl. 2. c. 2. Where also he tells us of a Pit in Peloponnesus whose Water smells wondrous pleasantly In Hildersham there be two Fountains the one flowing out of Marble smells like the stink of Rotten Eggs the other from Brimstone smells like Gun-powder Agric. de Nat. 3. As for Colours they

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