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water_n	boil_v	put_v	quart_n	5,161	5	12.0047	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A36373	Observations concerning the present state of religion in the Romish Church, with some reflections upon them made in a journey through some provinces of Germany, in the year 1698 : as also an account of what seemed most remarkable in those countries / by Theophilus Dorrington ...	Dorrington, Theophilus, d. 1715.	1699 (1699)	Wing D1944; ESTC R8762	234,976	442

ready to boil especially if it be put in any thing that is bright and shining and the Surface of the Water rises in these Pits just as Water does when 't is ready to boil over the Fire I doubt not to say that the Water here is actually boiling hot There was at each of these Pits a Place where we could put a Finger to the Water but could no more endure a Hand or Finger in it than in Water that boils over the Fire These Waters are certainly as hot as Water can be They will boil Eggs in a little time and the People take them up from these Springs and use them as Nature has fitted them upon Occasion to scald the Hair off from a Swine or Feathers from a Fowl All the Waters both here at Porcet and in the City have this Property that in the Throughs and Passages of Stone or Wood through which they run they leave in a little Time a great Quantity of heavy sandy Stone The People are forced to how this very often out of those Passages otherwise they would be quite stopp'd up The Porcetan Waters are reckon'd to have the most of this Quality and to have it from hence that they carry along with them somewhat more of that fine Sand which is the matter of this Stone though as I said these Waters are so clear and clean that no such thing can be discern'd in them 'T is judg'd that this Stone comes from the mixture of these little Grains of Sand together with the Particles of Salts that are in these Waters and which are coagulated by the cold Air. This Stone gathers no where but where the cold Air together with the Coldness of the Stone or wooden Troughs which the Water runs through do chill it And they say the least calcining and almost the laying them by a hot Fire reduces this Stone to a meer loose Sand again presently the Saline Particles being taken out by the Fire These Baths at Porcet are chiefly frequented for Pleasure by People that are well who may tumble in them as long as they please without any harm The Circumstances would not permit us to try this Pleasure We were here led into a House to see what they call een Druogh Bade that is a dry Bath We went into a little close Room which was laid over a hot Spring All the Furniture in it was a wooden Chair and a Tin Pipe of about Three or Four Inches in Diameter It consisted of several Joints to be taken off or put on as it was requir'd to be shorter or longer That which was to be always uppermost of these was crook'd to a right Angle In the middle of the Floor of this Chamber was a round Hole fit for the Pipe to set in this was stopp'd with a leaden Plugg We felt the Chamber very hot at our first Entrance but when the Plugg was taken out and the Steam ascended it quickly grew so hot that we could not endure it We put our Hands to the Hole whence it came up but could not endure to hold them there the Steam came up so very hot This Steam is by that Pipe and the crooked end of it directed to any particular Part of the Body that is disaffected that the force of the Heat may fall chiefly upon that Part. Next this Chamber was another little one with a Bed in it which they go into from hence to lie warm and Sweat some time There are several of this sort of Steam-Baths here and in Aix Passage from Aix to Juliers BEing straitned in time we were forced hence before we could be aweary of so pleasant and diverting a Place On the 27th of May we took a Charrette which we had hired to our selves to carry us from hence to Colen we had therefore in our Charrette but one Horse but a stout one and we paid for this Passage Three Guilders for each Person though it was reckon'd it would take us up Two good Days travelling by Reason that the Ways were become very bad with much Rain which had fallen We were to have gone from hence at Ten a Clock but staid for our Foreman till One who hid himself and loiter'd to see if the Rain would hold up it being an extream wet Morning When we went again to our Lodging and he thought he should lose the carrying us he soon after came to us with his Charrette We spent a good Hour in crossing the Valley of Aix as we may call it because that City stands at one side of it Our way through it was upon a broad pitch'd Causway It was much broken and out of repair and we went on very slowly On the other side of the Valley from Aken we met a little Brook swell'd into a River with the Rains it was ting'd of a reddish yellow Colour by the Grounds that it came from Here we pass'd through a large Village and soon after mounted a Hill the pitch'd way went along with us still to the top of Hill and there left us to lament the want of it though it was none of the best for we were no sooner from it but we expected every length of the Charrette almost to be thrown into some Slough of Mud. A great part of our Way from hence towards Juliers was through a very rich Country full of good Enclosures and furnish'd with Orchards Pasture-Grounds Corn-Fields and Hop-Grounds but some of the dirtiest Countries that ever I saw in my Life We went through a great many Villages in this way to Juliers and it seems a Country well peopled but the Houses of these Villages were the wretchedest that we had met with in all our Journey They were large indeed but the Walls of them were of Clay unwhited They are built with Timber and are loftier than our common Cottages which are of the same Colour in England Some of them had a Glass Window which might be cover'd with a quarter of a Yard of broad Ribbon and a great many had none at all They usually stood with their end to the Road and in that end there is in the middle two great Gates like our Barn Doors in England a little way from that is a little House Door They commonly look like the meanest sort of Barns in England They were covered with a very thick covering of Thatch and Clay together which must require good Timber to bear it We were now within the Province or Dutchy of Juliers one of those which makes Dutchy of Juliers up the Circle of Westphalia and were within the Dominions of the Duke of Neubourg who is at present Elector Palatine The Dutchy of Juliers goes in some part of it to the Rhine on the East where it also meets and bounds upon the Bishoprick of Colen it goes to the Maese with some part of it on the West where 't is bounded with that and the Bishoprick of Liege On the South its Limits are the Dutchies of Luxemburg and Limburg On

being 1699. will be the Year of showing them I did not think it worth while to be so particular as to ask him at what time of the Year this mighty Favour is granted to the World The hot Springs in and about Aix are in a Hot Sp● 〈◊〉 very great Number but divided into three sorts as coming from three different Beds of Earth and impregnated with something a different Mineral The one sort are those within the inner City which are the Caesarian the Little Bath and the Bath of St. Quirinus Another sort are those which rise in the outer City which are the Cornelian Bath the Rose Bath and the Poors Bath The third sort are those that rise in a Neighbouring Village call'd Porcet from the multitude of Wild Swine which formerly had their Haunts there these Baths are at the distance of about an English Mile from those in the City and rise in a higher part of the Valley All these Springs are very plentiful insomuch that among them all they are judg'd to vent Ten Thousand Tuns of Hot Water in a day And they are so impregnated with Salts that they will yield for every Tun of Water a Pound of Salt They come with such a heat out of the Spring that they are forced to let them stand in Bathing-places a cooling Fifteen or Eighteen hours before they are tolerable or fit to Bath in Over the Places where the Springs rise they have built Houses which are divided into several little Rooms in one Room is the Pit or Cavity to Bath in and in a little Room by it is a Bed to Sweat in when they go out of the Bath One House will have three four or five of these Baths in it they are laid with flat Stones such as are on Floors at the sides and bottom are commonly about twelve or fifteen Feet long and eight or ten Feet in breadth and four or five Feet in depth at the deepest These Houses have also each of them a Room where they that need it sit to have the Water pump'd upon them The Drinking of these Hot Waters at Aix Drinking is within a few Years become a great and common Practice They drink only of the Water in the outer City A Pump is set for this purpose upon one of the Streams of that Spring which supplies the Cornelian Baths which from the Chymical Experiments made with it the Physicians call A Sulphureo-falso-Nitrous Water The Pump stands in the Street but is lock'd up so as that none can draw of it when the time of Drinking is over It has by it two Piazza's and an open Court for the Drinkers to walk in From it there are three Spouts on three sides of a Square which one Man who stands at the other easily keeps running for the greatest number of Drinkers The Water comes from the Pump as warm as Milk from the Cow and fit to drink It seems to have no ill Taste or Smell I think our Chalybeate or Purging Waters in England taste worse They drink of this Water rising gradually to about an Hundred Ounces at the most which may be computed at about four Quarts in a Morning It has in several Bodies several ways of Operation With some it passes chiefly by Sweat with some by Urine and with some by Stool and they are directed to follow the Inclination of Nature in the thing But if they sweat with it they must go to Bed and cover themselves warm and put on dry and clean Cloaths when they rise The Waters usually pass away in those whom they agree with in the space of three or four hours and then they are fit for Dinner They order the Drinking and Bathing of several People very differently according to the Necessity of several Distempers and as is found most agreeable to the Constitutions But that which seem'd the most general and frequent Method was to drink in the Morning betimes and to Bath in the Afternoon about four or five hours after Dinner We were told that the hottest of these Springs are at Porcet we went therefore to Porcet see them We took the lower way in going thither and had a very Pleasant Walk through some Meadows for a while We came to a good Stream which we saw had upon it an under-shot Mill which it could very well drive When we were above this Mill we found our selves upon a Foot Causway which had on each side of it a brisk Stream of Water We were told and putting our Hands into both found that the one of these was warm and the other cold they both come down from the Hills about Porcet and rise not far from one another These two Rivulets which hitherto run distinct had upon each of them a Mill which they drove by falling upon the Wheels which we call an over-shot Mill. Just above that Mill which the warm Water drove there is a large Mill-Pond supported with a Dyke on one side because of the fall of the side of the Hill and on the other side defended by a Dyke from the Brook of fresh and cold Water which runs close by it This Pond breeds excellent Carps and in great plenty They are not thought to eat so well taken immediately from hence and dress'd as from other Waters though they will grow very large and fat here Therefore they usually take them from hence young and put them to feed and grow in other Ponds The Miller makes of the selling these young Carps from hence for that purpose above an Hundred Rix Dollars per Annum We observ'd that a small Spout of Water from the cold Brook was continually running into this Pond to give it a dash of fresh Water yet for all this we could feel a manifest Warmth in the Water of the Pond and that although we were somewhat the warmer for our walking When we came to Porcet we found the hot Springs rise in a narrow Valley between Two steep Hills There are we were told above Thirty distinct Springs of hot Water here many of which run waste and we saw a Stream of smoaking Water tumbling down by us in the Valley with some Noise which smoak'd as much as boiling Water thrown down There are Fifteen bathing Houses built here and they have among them Thirty Baths We were guided to Two Pits of hot Water which are open to the Air which are reckon'd to have in them the hottest Springs of any in this Place The Pits were about Four or Five Yards over with Brick Walls round the sides of them which went to the bottom of the Pits and stood above Ground almost Breast high the Water in them seem'd to be about Five or Six Feet in depth It seem'd to have somewhatof a pale blueish Colour but was so clear that we could see the bottoms of the Pits very easily And from thence we saw innumerable little Bubbles continually rise up such as one shall see in Water over the Fire when it becomes