muddyshoes

By muddyshoes

White Wells, Ilkley Moor

This public plunge pool is fed from a spring with water that has been described thus;  " It is not ordinary water, it is extraordinary, it is a Pyaerian spring.  There is a ceaseless, inexhaustible supply.  The water is mellifluent, diaphanous, limpid, luminous, transparent, pellucid.  You can drink it with impunity.It is the aqua vitae;  the elixir of life. It is vitalising, animating, resuscitating, exhilarating, enthusing, sustaining,refreshing, invigorating, delightful, and delicious to bathe in.  It gives lustre and brilliancy to the eyes and grace to the skin.  Sweeter, better water it was never your  fortune to touch before.
It contains the essence of health and life, it contains a large quantity of latent heat and natural electricity.  It will strengthen your digestive functions."
What more can I say?  Except thank you to Freespiral for suggesting International Holy Well Month for February - I now keep seeing springs everywhere!!

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