228 Voyage of the Novara. 



Brand Vley, or Brand Valley. This hot spring, which is 

 quite exposed, like a pond or tank, and even at the least 

 accessible points is adorned with rich vegetation, is about 

 100 feet in circumference, and is of a triangular shape, 

 rounded off at the corners. Among bananas, ferns, and 

 cacti of all sorts, spring up numerous specimens of Calla 

 Ethiopticay silver poplars, pines, reeds, and canes, in wild 

 profusion. Many fruits even, such as pine-apples, man- 

 goes, rose apples, &;c., which as a rule do not flourish at 

 this elevation, grew all round the edges of the basin. 

 Some twigs of a rose tree, which, growing luxuriantly in 

 the warmth and moisture, spread across the spring, like 

 a green canopy, must have been a second growth of the 

 same year. We in fact enjoyed the unusual spectacle of 

 seeing one portion of the tree in the flush of its utmost beauty, 

 while the upper and more distant branches had not as yet put 

 forth their leaves. The water at the hottest point reached 

 145° r., while the temperature of the air was 75° F. It is 

 remarkably clear, has not the slightest taste, and in many 

 particulars greatly resembles the springs of Wildbad Gastein. 

 The number of patients during the season (October to April) 

 does not exceed from 100 to 150, the waters being chiefly used 

 in chronic maladies, rheumatic aff'ections, scrofula, erysipelas, 

 cutaneous eruptions, and similar complaints. Immediately 

 adjoining is a small brook, with a temperature of 68° F., which 

 rises at the foot of a neighbouring eminence, and has water 

 enough during the entire year to keep a mill in constant work. 



