LANCARIN SPRING, the name of a medicated water of Glamorganhire. 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 rill falls from a rock of about eight or nine feet high, with a considerable noise. The spring is very 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 froag
current of a mill tail has cured it, and there is the Lancashire fame advantage in the fall of this water.