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Yet, if one wishes to seek water, one must carefully consider the suitability of the place, for in some places constant sources are found, while in others they are inconstant, which are small, meager, with little water, and which do not rise from the depths, and such waters rarely have a good taste. Likewise, in small gravel Kiß gravel/coarse sand one finds thin waters; however, if one digs into the depth, such waters are soft and tasteless. In black earth, one finds small, weak veins, but in gravel one finds them middling, yet inconstant sources, though they are well-tasting. In very coarse sand and carbuncle stone, the waters are more certain and of good taste. The source rising from rattenstein a type of porous, weathered rock is strong and good, provided such water does not flow away through adjacent veins, but the spring sources at the bottom of mountains, out of rocks and Kißling small gravel, are