This well, the usual resort of the company who frequent Buxton to drink
the waters, has been classed among the wonders of the peak, on account
of this singularity, that within five feet of the hot spring by which it
is supplied, a cold one arises. This is not, however, the only well of
the kind, since hot and cold springs rise near each other in many parts
of England, and in other countries. The water is conveyed to the well,
which is an elegant classical building, in the Grecian style, from the
original spring, by a narrow passage, so close and well contrived as to
prevent it from losing any considerable portion of its heat, and is
received in a white marble bason. It is not so warm as the Bath water,
its temperature being about eighty degrees of Fahrenheit.