Besides that, to
confirm this _hypothesis_, there are many _Examples_ found in _Natural
Historians_, of _Springs_ that do ebb and flow like the Sea: As
particularly, those recorded by the Learned _Camden_, and after him by
_Speed,_ to be found in this _Island_: One of which, they relate to be on
the Top of a Mountain, by the small Village _Kilken_ in _Flintshire_,
_Maris aemulus qui statis temporibus suos evomit & resorbet Aquas_; Which
at certain times riseth and falleth after the manner of the Sea. A Second
in _Caermardenshire,_ near _Caermarden_, at a place called _Cantred
Bichan_; _Qui (ut scribit Giraldus) naturali die bis undis deficiens, &
toties exuberans, marinas imitatur instabilitates_; That twice in four and
twenty hours ebbing and flowing; resembleth the unstable motions of the
Sea. The _Phaenomena_ of which two may be easily made out, by supposing the
_Cavern_, by which they are fed, to arise from the bottom of the next Sea.
A Third, is a Well upon the River _Ogmore_ in _Glamorganshire_, and near
unto _Newton_, of which _Camden_ relates himself to be certified, by a
Letter from a Learned Friend of his that observed it, _Fons abest hinc,
&c._ The Letter is a little too long to be inserted, but the substance is
this; That this Well ebbs and flows quite contrary to the flowing and
ebbing of the Sea in those parts: for 'tis almost empty at Full Sea, but
full at Low water.
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