a place in the peak of Derbyshire, celebrated for medicinal waters; the hottest in England, next to Bath.

Buxton-wells. The strata of earth and minerals, in the parts adjacent to Buxton, are peat-moss, blue clay, iron, and coal, mixed with sulphur and brazil.

The warm waters there, at present, are the bath, which takes in several warm springs; St Ann's well, a hot and cold spring rising up into the same receptacle; and Bingham-well.

These waters greatly promote digestion, unless they are drunk too long, in which case they relax the stomach, and retard digestion; they are well adapted to obstructions of every kind, whence they produce surprising effects in gouty, rheumatic, athritic, and scorbutic pains. As this water is warm, highly impregnated with a mineral steam, vapour, or spirit, it is signally beneficial to cramps, convulsions, dry asthma, the bilious colic, stiffness, &c.

They advise both drinking and bathing in the use of these waters; only the last is of bad consequence in the gout, inward inflammations, fevers, dysentery, large inward tumours, or in an outward pressure of the body.