Spadacrene Anglica, the English spaw, or, The glory of Knaresborough: springing from several famous fountains there adjacent, called the vitrioll, sulphurous and dropping wels; and also other minerall waters. Their nature, physical use, situation, and many admirable cures being exactly exprest in the subsequent treatise of the learned Dr. Dean, and the sedulous observations of the ingenious Michael Stanhope Esquire. Wherein it is proved by reason and experience, that the vitrioline fountain is equall (and not inferiour) to the Germain spaw.

CHAP. II. Of the severall earths, stones, and minerals, found neer and about this place.

ALthough there are in sundry places of this king∣dome, as many or more several kindes, and sorts of earths, quarries of stone, minerals, and mines of mettals, then in any other Realm whatsoever; not∣withstanding, no one place hath been observed to have them either in such plenty, or variety in so small a di∣stance as this. For here is found not onely white and yellow marble, plaister, oker, rud, rubrick, free-stone, and hard greet-stone, a soft reddish stone, iron-stone, brim-stone, vitreal, nitre, allum, lead, copper, (and without doubt, divers mixtures of these) but also many other minerals might (perhaps) be found out by the di∣ligent search, and skilfull industry of those, who would take pains to labour a little herein.

All which doe manifestly demonstrate, that nature hath stored this little territory with a greater diversity of hidden benefits, then great and spacious Countries otherwise abounding in outward native commodities, and that the fountains, or springs of water hereabouts cannot otherwise then participate of their several na∣tures and properties.