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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A62933	Scarbrough spaw spagyrically anatomized by Geo. Tonstall ...	Tonstall, George, b. 1616 or 17.	1670 (1670)	Wing T1889; ESTC R4765	15,856	62

infuse it not dissolve it can it be expected that the Gall should precipitate the Allom Stone from the water whilst it came not into it but only lay at the bottom undissolv'd what can simple water extract out of a hard Slate no more than a Feather can strike fire out of a Flint Stone Nay more saith he I calcin'd that very Stone and then dissolved it in Spring water and yet it received no tincture from the Gall. Answer No marvel neither because the calcin'd Stone of Allom is white its blewness which gives the tincture disappears by the sire even as red Coral calcin'd in a Crucible turns white of Colour Further to let the Reader know that he will spare for no pains to give satisfaction pag. 92. he sends to two ingenious Gentlemen at Whitby where is a water that breaks out of the middle of a Mine to try if that would receive tincture from Gall and they did both assure him it did not besides they sent a Glass-bottle of the same water to York where he tryed it himself and it did not change at all Why what 's the matter he is answered out of his own mouth Nay saith he I do aver with them that it is like ordinary Spring-water in truth it is none other the Labourers drink of it to quench their thirst having taken no vapour odour or Sapour from the Mine yet he doth confidently conclude from this tryal that it is not from Allom that this Water at Scarbrough takes its incture Such another Errand as this to Whitby he makes to Barnsley upon the edge of Darby-shire to try if a Spring of fresh Water that runs out of Iron-stone would change colour with Gall and it did not neither there nor at York What can be inferred from hence but that this Water which ran from the Iron-stone was no more concerned with the Iron than that at Whitby was with the Allom nay à potiori if a Mineral Salt of Allom whiles crude and imbodied in its Gleeb doth not always impart to the Spring that runs through it either Odour Sapour or Vapour as he hath said before much less will the Metal of Iron-stone do it If his friend that for a further tryal made a hole in the bottom Stone to see if the Water that stood in it would tinge by Gall had sent him a Bottle of any Water that came from the Iron-stone whilst it was in solutis principiis I do affirm that Water would receive tincture from Gall such a Water we have at Hunwick where great quantity of Iron-stone is digged up and it receives tincture from Gall as highly as Scarbrough doth Dr. Witty pag. 94. is framing an Argument ab inductione thus The tincture by Gall is not from Allom nor from Iron ergo 't is from Vitriol Answer I am loth to see my Brother in the pinfold yet must I say if it be from the Vitriol it is because of the Iron that is in it for no other Vitriol but ferrugineum will do it hence it will follow if not from Iron then 't is not from Vitriol ergo 't is from Allom that Scarbrough Water tinges by Gall. His second proof pag. 11. Sir John Anderton observed that the Water carried in an Oaken Vessel in the bottom whereof was found a yellowish sediment which he sent to the Doctor he saw it like crocus Martis and tasted it of a stiptick quality and therefore 't is supposed by him to be the Chalybeate part of the Minerals Answer Quaecunque volumus facilè credimus The sharp Water agitated against the Oaken Vessel in carrying corrodes the inner parts of it which powder setling to the bottom with some seces of the Spaw Water produceth a settlement of the colour of Oak which if he had dried and then burnt in a Crucible the flame thereof would have shown him that it was Wood and not Iron If different things were not sometimes like one another none could be deceived Pag. 12. The water at 40 Miles distance will not cruddle Milk as it doth at Scarbrough and that it doth not receive such a deep tincture from the Gall nor is it found to have such a pleasant acidity as at the Fountain which certainly must proceed from a loss of the Vitrioline Spirits of which it doth eminently participate Answer Who questions that Allom will not cruddle Milk as well as Vitriol the more subtile any acid Liquor put to Milk is the more perfectly doth it separate the thick parts from the thin 't will follow therefore that the water hath lost some of its subtile Spirits by carrying but none of the Vitriol which it never had The tincture from the Gall I have manifested to proceed from the Unburnt Allom Stone whereof this is a plain proof put the Spaw Water into Glass Bottles at the Fountain let them be carried abroad and left a few days and the Allom Stone will settle of it self without any mixture of Gall to the bottom in a blackish Powder which cannot be any thing of Chalybs for two Reasons First because the Vitrioline Spirit and Iron are too great friends being once met together to be so easily separated Any that have prepared Vitriolum Martis he hath learned this Note by it Secondly when the Vitrioline Water doth settle its Colcothar without adding Gall to it it is always of a yellow Colour This may be seen in the Stone Bason and Spout of Knaisbrough Spaw where the Water passing continually in the open air over it hath precipitated Crocus Martis as I may call it thereupon The like may be observed in every runner near the Fountain head of any Vitrioline or Chalybeate water whatsoever His Argument for Iron pag. 14. The Earth that falls from the Bank turns to Iron-stone as hard as Iron it self and fusible being put into a Smiths Forge as I have sometimes found upon tryal There is a piece of the Cliff within one hundred paces of the Spaw thus converted in a very sew years to an Iron Stone as much as would load three or four Carts Answer I here require the Smith to make Horse-shoe Nails of it and then I shall yield to Dr. Witty thus much that within a hundred Paces of the Spaw Westward there is Iron-stone To me it doth appear to be a reddish Earth dissolved with the Nitroaluminous Salt and petrified in the Sun and Air to a hard lump which will flux in the Fire answerable to the Nature of that Salt that is in it Another Argument for Iron which for manners sake I leave last is that the Water colours the Excrements black he should have said blew for when he looks back again they will appear of the same colour that Allom Stone is of In his Answer to Mr. Simpson pag. 42. I knew saith he Vitriol to be in the water from its eminent acidity Answer This is a non sequitur for acidity is appropriated to the Spirit of Nitre as well as to the Spirit

them as to cut away the surface of the earth about a mineral Fountain standing water abiding all Winter in these deep Trenches by sinking down through the softned earth makes passage into the current of the Spaw then every showre of Rain in the Summer will find the same crevices and clifts to descend into it If this may suffice to get this fault mended I shall be glad Anno 1668. being mostly concern'd to look well to my self against the threatnings of my former distemper I visited Scarbrough during mine abode there First I took notice what Doctor Witty says pag. 151. that after he had exhaled the water from the body of the minerals it would not unite with other waters but lie all at the bottom undissolved By this trial of his I was certain that in that body of Minerals there must be other things containd than his 4 or 5 principles for Allom Nitre Salt and Vitriol of Iron are amicable to water and without any force dissolvable in it neither may it be supposed that the fire in exhaling the Water can alter the texture of Salts so as to hinder their dissolution for the more Salts are calcined the more speedily do they imbibe the Water as thirsting for it as Ice doth therefore easily melt in Water because it proceeded from it for the same reason Salts must do so likewise If any one doubt of this let him try the Lord Blay's Experiment that learned Frenchman viz. calcine Sea-Salt deliquiate it then distill all that will come over repeat this process and you will find that all the Salt is turned into Water as devoid of all saltness as is distilled Rain Water Next thing I observed was these words of his pag. 13. Nor can the principles be separated further than I have already expressed namely by putting Gall to the Water notwithstanding many ingenious Gentlemen have endeavoured it I wish those he means had applied their wits about the usefulness of Experimental Philosophy as the Honourable Boyle has done and then their endeavours would have succeeded here and to higher purposes than the separating the principles of Scarbrough Spaw where the difficulty lay that obstructed the separation I cannot apprehend for fire alone is an instrument sufficient to effect it This substance if I may so call it being as subtile as the light must penetrate through the centre of every pore of the mixed Water and because of its property to ascend upward it doth incessantly disquiet the lodge of heterogeneals during this restless Motion like things do occur with like and their Nature is to unite after this manner as I conceive it comes to pass that ignis segregat heterogenea congregat homogenea by no other artifice did I extract out of the Spaw Water a pure nitroaluminous Salt and a large quantity of feces apart both which I then shewed to the Honourable Lord Faulconbridge who can remember what I said then to his Lordship of it At this time I could not be certain but that much of the Sand which settled to the bottom in the Preparation came through the carelesness of the Porter that brought me the Water and therefore I could not come to a positive determination by this Experiment only I wrote to Mr. Simpson wishing him to forbear publishing any thing concerning Scarbrough Spaw till he had spoke with me because I had made a tryal what was contained in it his answer was my advice came too late for his Book was in the Press so far was I from having a hand in the framing his Book as Dr. Witty was made to believe by the report of others This Year 1669. I returned thither and though I dropt Oleum Salis tinctured with Gold in every other Glass hoping thereby to cleanse off the sordes of the Spaw yet after a fortnights drinking it gave me a fit of the Stone which from the time Mr. Holiard cured me I had not felt before I brought the Water home with me that I might be sure that nothing extraneous to the Spaw might interrupt a critical Analysis thereof the product confirmed my first Experiment which I made at Scarbrough all the materials that can be found in it are three first Raments of Stone secondly a Nitroaluminous Salt and thirdly a gleeb of Allom their proportions are thus of the Stone-powder one Ounce and three Drams of the Nitroaluminous Salt one Ounce and six Drams of the Blew-Clay which is the gleeb of Allom three Drams the active principles and the caput mortuum are equal so that if Dr. Witty's tryal be true that five Quarts of Water give one Ounce of the body of Mineral as he calls it you take half an Ounce of Stone and Clay into your Bowels every such quantity you drink Here you see a cause as I observed before why this Body of Minerals would not dissolve in Water namely the Stone and Clay by the heat of the Fire while he exhal'd the Water dry from them become more compacted together with the Salts than when they were in the Fountain whereas when these Salts are separated from their dross they melt as easily as Snow in Water You will say how comes it about that there is so much Filth in Scarbrough Water as you speak of For answer take notice Dr. Witty tells you that the Spaw which is a quick Spring cometh out at the foot of an exceeding high Clift all the Stone and Earth that maketh up this Mountain is big belly'd with Nitre Allom-Stone here and there mingled in it after the Spring has run through this high Hill the Spaw is brought forth which is fair and clear to look to I cannot but compare it to an Harlot of whom it is said She eateth and wipeth her mouth and saith I have done no wickedness This hungry esurine Water after she has devoured Stone in a large quantity as if that were not sufficient for to grate her Teeth upon she hath swallowed both Cup and Liquor of the Allom. Because I have dealt with her as Aesop dealt with the Boy that had eaten the Figs made her vomit them up again whosoever is angry with me for doing so I must bear it If any of her friends think I do bely her let them for their satisfaction first answer this Query From what cause is it after you have drunk a Month of it then if not before it takes a Resty Jadish fit will neither go backward nor forward A Noble Lord complained to me that the Water dealt thus with him his Lordship having drunk it with success about a Month it then swell'd him at stomack two or three last days and would neither work by Urine nor Stool though he took his usual Physick with it as formerly the Scotch Pill which is an Extract of Aloes I advis'd him to take one Dram and half of the pure Essence with the Spaw Water by the help of this and the said Pill he had plentiful Evacuations in that Afternoon thus being quitted