LANCARIM SPRING, the name of a medicated water of Glamorgan-shire. It has its name from a town near which it rises; and has been very long famous in the place for the cure of the king's evil. The body of water is about an ell broad, and runs between two hills covered with wood. About 12 yards from this spring the hill falls from a rock of about eight or nine feet
high, with a considerable noise. The spring is very Lancashire clear, and rises out of a pure white marble. The cures that have been performed there, are proofs of a real power in the water; but there is some question whether the water, or its motion and coldness, does the good; for the people who come for relief always drink of the spring, and bathe the part afterward in the fall below. It is generally supposed, that the limestone rocks communicate a virtue to it by which it cures internally; but it has been often found, that the holding a limb disordered with the evil in the strong current of a mill-tail has cured it, and there is the same advantage in the fall of this water.