| Robert Hunt - 1865 - 328 sider
...of water from the white, blue, red, and green veins of those rocks. And acChapell Uny. 55 cordingly, in the place where those drops of water fall, it swells...water are very great. It is incredible what numbers in summer-season frequent this place and waters from counties far distant." * RICKETY CHILDREN. THE practice... | |
| Joseph Polsue - 1867 - 448 sider
...down or distils continually drops of water, from the white, blue, red, and green veins of those rorks. And accordingly in the place where those drops of...from counties far distant. Chynowen. now Chynoweth, ie New-house, was the voke-laniis of a considerable manor, under which jurisdiction this parish was... | |
| Robert Hunt - 1881 - 512 sider
...day). The same stands in a dark cavern of the sea-cliff rocks, beneath full sea-mark on spring tides, from the top of which cavern falls down or distils...this place and waters from counties far distant." * RICKETY CHILDREN. THE practice of bathing rickety children on the first three Wednesdays in May is... | |
| Mabel Quiller-Couch, Lilian M. Quiller-Couch - 1894 - 258 sider
...where those drops of water fall, they swell to a lump of considerable bigness; and there petrifying to the hardness of ice, glass, or freestone, of the...the nature of those veins in the rock from whence they proceed.' These stalactites are hard and brittle as glass. It must have been a well of very wide... | |
| Sabine Baring-Gould, John Fisher - 1908 - 520 sider
...where these drops of water fall, they swell to a lump of considerable bigness ; and there petrifying to the hardness of ice, glass, or freestone, of the...the nature of those veins in the rock from whence they proceed." He goes on to say that people frequented this well in " incredible " numbers in summer,... | |
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