A tour in Scotland; MDCCLXIX / [Thomas Pennant].

  • Thomas Pennant
Date:
1774
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Credit: A tour in Scotland; MDCCLXIX / [Thomas Pennant]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    but the bowels compenfate for the external fterility, by yielding fuf- ficient quantity of coal for the ufe of the neighboring parts of Che- Jhire, and for the burning of lime : vaft quantity is made near Bux¬ ton., and being carried to all parts for the purpofes of agriculture, is become a confiderable article of commerce. The celebrated warm bath of Buxton * is feated in a bottom, Buxton. amidft thefe hills, in a moft chearlefs fpot, and would be little fre¬ quented, did not Hygeia often refide here, and difpenfe to her vota¬ ries the chief bleffings of life, eafe and health. With joy and gratitude I this moment refled: on the efficacious qualities of the waters •, I recoiled: with rapture the return of fpirits, the flight of pain, and re-animation of my long, long crippled rheumatic limbs. But how unfortunate is it, that what Providence defigned for the general good, ffiould be rendered only a partial one, and denied to all, ex¬ cept the opulent; or I may fay to the (comparatively) few that can get admittance into the houfe where thefe waters are imprifoned ? There are other fprings (Cambden fays nine) very near that in the Hall, and in all probability of equal virtue. I was informed that the late Duke of Devonjhire, not long before his death, had ordered fome of thefe to be inclofed and formed into baths. It is to be hoped that his fucceffior will not fail adopting fo ufeful and humane a plan; that he will form it on the moft enlarged fyftem, that they may open not folely to thofe whom mifufed wealth hath rendered invalids, but to the poor cripple, whom honeft labor hath made a * The Romans, who were remarkably fond of warm baths, did not over-look thefe agreeable waters : they had a bath, inclofed with a brick wall, adjacent to the prefent St. utnne*s well, which Dr, Shorty in his elfay on mineral waters, fays was razed in 1709. burden
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