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Title: Picturesque views, on the River Medway, from the Nore to the vicinity of its source in Sussex : with observations on the public buildings and other works of art in its neighbourhood
Year: 1793 (1790s)
Authors: Ireland, Samuel, d. 1800 Apostool, Cornelis, 1762-1844 Thomas and John Egerton (Firm)
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Publisher: London : Published by T. and J. Egerton ...
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d fcenery is within two miles of theWells, and is a retreat much frequented bythe company who refort thither; the an-nexed ( 192 ) nexed fketcli, from a fcene in the high road,will faintly convey an idea of a place onwhich various conjectures and opinions havebeen formed. From the wonderful and fm-gular appearance of nature, and the variedand irregular difpofition of thefe rocky pro-minencies, little doubt remains of their beingthe effed of fome violent convulfion of theearth. The general face of the neighbouringcountry corroborates the idea ^ but at whatperiod this may have happened, philofophyis not able to trace, nor hiftory to reveal. Inthe foreft of this neighbourhood is a limpidfpring of very delicious water, known by theappellation of Adams Well; the virtues ofwhich feem to be of ftill more ancient datethan the adjacent wells at Tunbridge. It isonly within a few years that this place hasbeen acceflible by cairiages, and it has everbeen with difficulty reached even by perfons on
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^ ^ ^ ^ ^ 5< ( 193 )on foot, who were obliged to fcramble overhedge, bramble, and brier to attain it. The well was purchafed by the late Mr.Pinchbeck within the lafl thirty years»through the perfuafion of a Yorkfhire attor-ney and others, whofe horfes had been ma-terially benefited by the ufe of the waters.If the poem, from which the following linesare extradled, be true, this Well may fairlyrival the waters of Lethe, for here all chronicand other complaints, not to except thepangs arifing from the tender pa (lion, maybe removed, and every human ill ** Yields to its balmy power ;* Difabled limbs, inflamed eyes, And bofoms full of plaintive fighs^ Are foftend evry hour. The river Medway, in its courfe towardSpeldhurll, works* feveral mills, and at thevillage it acquires fufficient ftrength to fup- B b ply ( »9+ ) ply a confiderable iron foundery, called Bar-den Furnace, where cannon of the largeftdimenfions have formerly been made j andin the neighbourhood a great quantity ofiron

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