Memorabilia mundi, or, Choice memoirs of the history and description of the world by G.H.
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Memorabilia mundi, or, Choice memoirs of the history and description of the world by G.H.
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G. H.
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London :: Printed for the author, and are to be sold by F. Smiih [i.e. Smith] ...,
1670.
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The Bishoprick of Durham.
THings of rare note observed in
this shire, are three pits of a won∣derful
depth, commonly called the Hell
Kettles, which are adjoyning near unto
Darlington, whose waters are somewhat
warm. These are thought to come of an
Earth-quake, which happened in the
year 1179. whereof the Chronicle of
Tinmouth maketh mention, whose Re∣cord
is this, On Christmas-day at Ox∣enhall
in the Territory of Darlington,
within the Bishoprick of Durham, the
ground heaved up aloft, like unto a high
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Tower, and so continued all that day, as
it were unmoveable until the Evening,
and then fell with so horrible a noise,
that it made all the Neighbour dwellers
sore afraid; and the earth swallowed it
up, and made in the same place a deep
pit, which is there to be seen for a testi∣mony
unto this day.
Of no less admiration are certain
stones lying within the River Weere, at
Butterbee near Durham, from whose ebb
and low-water in the Summer, issueth a
certain Salt reddish water, which with
the sun waxeth white, and growing into
a thick substance, becometh a necessary
salt to the use of the by-dwellers.
Westmorland nothing worth noting.
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