water, otherwise it used to flame all over y^e well a good height, now it burnt weaker; at last the wind blew out y^e mans Candle and he severall tymes lighted y^e bitt of Rush or splinter of wood by y^e flame y^t burnt in y^e well. This is a little unaccountable; I apprehend its a sort of an unctious matter in y^e Earth and soe through its veines the springs run w^{ch} Causes it so to burn, for I observ’d when they dug into y^e banche and opened the sort of Clay or mudd, it burnt fiercer and more from y^e well. I returned againe to Wiggon two mile and thence to Preston and passed by S^r John Bradshaws house w^{ch} stood on y^e declineing of a hill in y^e midst of a fine grove of trees. Severall fine walkes and Rows of trees thereabout; just in the Road on the banck where on the hedge stood was Errected a high stone pillar Carv’d and a ball on y^e top with an jnscription Cutt on it shewing the Cause of it, being the monument of an officer that in a fight just there, his horse takeing y^e hedge and Ditch on some distaste he tooke at y^e Gunns and smoake, flung out his sword out of y^e scabbard and flung his Master down on y^e poynt of it w^{ch} ran him through that he dyed and Lyes buried on y^e Spott. Preston is reckon’d but 12 mile from Wiggon but they Exceed in Length by farre those y^t I thought long the day before from Leverpoole; its true to avoid the many Mers and marshy places it was a great Compass I tooke, and passed down and up very steep hills, and this way was good Gravell way; but passing by many very Large arches y^t were only single ones but as Large as two great gate wayes, and y^e water I went through y^t ran und^{er} them was so shallow notwithstanding these were Extreme high arches, I enquired the Meaneing and was inform’d that on great raines those brookes would be swelled to so great a height that unless those arches were so high, noe passing while it were so.