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English: Once a well St Bernard's Well (so named from a tradition that Saint Bernard of Clervaux lived at one time in a nearby cave) was a mineral water spring by the right bank of the Water of Leith. Alexander Nasymth designed the circular temple building which was inspired by the Temple of Vesta at Tivoli in Italy. There is a marble statue of Hygieia, the Greek Goddess of Health, under the lead dome. At one time it was claimed that the water could cure everything from a bruised leg to total blindness and a poet wrote about it:
'This water so healthful near Edinburgh doth rise Which not only Bath but Moffat outvies. It cleans the intestines and an appetite gives While morbific matters it quite away drives.' Sadly, the well was sealed off (for health reasons) in the 1940s and has never been reopened. |
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| Author | James Allan |
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