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Provinces of European Turkey. 



N. Lat. 46° to 41°. E. Long. 17° to 29°. 



Mean temp, not sufficiently ascertained. 



Line of thermal waters extends from north to south in Servia, at the 



foot of the chain of mountains which connects the Carpathians with 



the ridge of the Balkan, and through which the Danube forces its way 



between Moldava and Gladova. The line of hot springs begins at 



Mehadia, in the Bannat, and extends south beyond Nizza in Servia. 



A second line may be traced running east and west at the foot of the 

 Balkan. The hottest has a temperature of 162°- 5. 



A third group exists in southern Macedonia, near Salonichi and 

 Serres. They are mostly sulphureous. 



Greece and its Islands. 

 N. Lat. 41° to 36°. E. Long. 20° to 27°. 

 Mean temp, not ascertained. 

 A group of thermal springs at the base of Mount Olympus, of which 

 that at the Pass of Thermopylae is the only one whose temperature is 

 ascertained. This found by Clark to be 113°. 

 Hot bath of Venus, east of Corinth. 



Korantzia, south of Mount Geranicus, near the Gulf of Corinth, 

 gaseous eruptions and a spring at 87°'8. 



At Venetiko, west of Lepanto, a sulphureous thermal spring, called 

 Taphoi (Tombs of Nessus). 



Six leagues from Patras, a saline thermal spring, 96°-8. 

 In the Morea, near Methone, in the ancient Argolis, near the base 

 of an extinct volcano, and in the Archipelago, in the islands of Negro- 

 pont, (Lelantho, near the ancient Chalcis,) Milo, Thermia, and Lemnos, 

 are thermal waters*. 



Iceland. 

 N. Lat. 63° to 67°. W. Long. 12° to 25°. 

 Mean. temp. 37°-4 Fahr. 

 A very numerous class of sulphureous waters, with a high tempera- 

 ture, in that part of the island, where trachyte exists, and volcanic 

 eruptions at present take place. 



A second class of thermal waters of a lower temperature, and impreg- 

 nated only with carbonic acid gas, in the volcanic promontory of Snee- 

 field-Syssel, where igneous operations have ceased f. 



• Consult Virlet, Expedition Scientifique de Moree. 



t See Krug von Nidda in Edinh. New Phil. Journ., vol. xxii. 



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