Of a remarkable spring, about Paderborn in Germany

Abstract

An inquiring gentleman of those parts writes to his friend in London, as follows; In this diocess of Paderborn, about 2 leagues from that town, is a treble spring call'd Metborn, which has three streams, two wherof are not above one foot and a half distant from one another, and yet of so differing qualities, that whereas one of them is limpid, blewish, lukewarm, bubling, and holding sal-armoniack, ochra, iron, vitriol, allum, sulphur, niter, orpiment, used against epilepsies, bad spleens, and the wormes;