WRINTON, (Somerset) a pretty good T. among the Mendip-Hills, 103 cm. 125 mm. from London, had the honour of giving birth to that great philosopher, John Locke. The p. contains 6000 acres of enclosed ground, and 5000 acres of common, and the E. of Essex was lately Ld. of the manor. A brook runs through the T. and drives a mill for the use of the manor-house. The people here trade much in teazles (a sort of thistles used in cloth dressing) which come out of the ground, at first, in the shape and colour of a tobacco-leaf. It has a Mt. on T. well supplied with corn, &c. a Fair Sept. 29, and a small ch. sc. Lapis Calaminaris is dug and prepared near this T. The manner of it is particularly described in Lowther's Philosoph. Trans. Vol. II. to which we need only add, that the Dutch, who used to fetch the Calamine-Stones from Poland, have them now from this country.