ter, and put into them the following simples:--

1. Green Tea. This, in about 24 hours, made it of the colour of
sack, and, by standing, it became much deeper coloured, like strong
old beer.

2. Fustic; not so deep, more like cyder.

3. Red Sanders; almost the same colour in the light; but if I held
the glass in the shade, it appeared of a blueish green, exactly like
some old glass bottles I have formerly seen.

4. Alkanet; deeper, like old mountain wine.

5. Galls; paler than any of the foregoing. A large blue scum on the
top, such as we see upon urine in fevers, and standing lakes of
water, where there are minerals. With logwood, tormentil, cort,
granat, etc., there are some spots of this kind, but with none so
much as with galls.

"A little below the Spaw (continues our authority), on the other side
of the brook, they meet with a white clay, full of yellow veins of a
deep colour, like gumboge when it has been for some time exposed to
the air. These two they temper together and make into cakes, which
they sell to the glovers by the name of ochre cakes, and with them
they give a yellow colour to leather.

"Near the surface of the earth the country is for the most part a
strong clay, which makes good brick, but, for a small compass from
this Spaw all along the village on the north side of the brook we
have sand. Underground the whole country abounds with coal and
ironstone."

The glovers' handicraft, it may be mentioned in passing, was once
strongly represented in olden Darlaston.

The situation of Willenhall is by no means an elevated one, and the whole
plain in which it is situated formerly abounded in Springs, ere the
surface had been so much disturbed by mining operations.

On the edge of the valley, under the shadow of Sedgley Beacon, was the
famous Spring known as the Lady Wulfruna's, and which gave the place its
name, Spring Vale; from this spot the silvery stream flowed eastwards
into Willenhall, seeking the cool shade of the pleasant woodland there.

The stream, as it came in from Bilston, and ran eastwards through
Willenhall, till it met the Tame, was once called the Hind Brook, or Stag
River. In Saxon times the Tame here seems to have been designated
Beorgita's Stream; and Mr. G. T. Lawley, in his "History of Bilston,"
says that the original bed of this brook was discovered in Willenhall
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