Observations on the effects of Buxton water ... / [Joseph Denman].

  • Denman, Joseph
Date:
1793
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Credit: Observations on the effects of Buxton water ... / [Joseph Denman]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    OBSERVATIONS ©k THE EFFECTS Of* UXTON WATE THE SITUATION, ETYMOLOGY, ANB ANTIQUITY OF BUXTON. UXTON, fo famed for its medicinal fprings, is a confiderable village in the north-weft part of the county of Derby, but bordering upon CheftiirQ; from which it i? feparated by a chain of high mountains, in¬ terfered by deep ravines. The whole country furrounding it is ex¬ tremely mountainous, exhibiting the ftrongeft proofs of fome violent convulfion or tre¬ mendous effort in the bowels of the earth ; but at a period fo diftant that no record of it is remaining; neither has tradition conveyed to pofterity any the leaft circumftance con- z cerning