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the said disorder about 12 years, and reduced to a cripple, by using 

 them a short time was quite well, and went a hunting every day. 

 There are several other hot springs in the island, particularly at 

 Ribeira Grande; but they do not possess the same virtues, at least 

 not in so great a degree. [Phil. Trans. Abrid* 1778. 



4. Hot Springs in the District of Troas. 



AFTER having passed the ford, we gallopped up to the Agha's 

 mansion at Bonarbashy, the name of which place, literally trans- 

 lated, signifies * The head of the springs *.' Immediately on my 

 arrival, I hastened to them, keeping a thermometer exposed and 

 pendent the whole way, as the sun was then setting, and a-favour- 

 able opportunity offered for an ar.ciirate investigation of their tem- 

 perature. Some peasants who conducted me, related the tradition 

 concerning the supposed heat and cold of the different sources; 

 one only being, as they said, a hot spring. I desired to examine 

 that first, and for this purpose was taken to a place about half a 

 mile from the Agha's house; to the most distant of the several 

 springs ; for in fact there are many, bursting from different crevices, 

 through a stratum of breccia, or pudding stone, covered by a su- 

 perincumbent layer of lime-stone. From the number of the springs, 

 the Turks call the place Kirk Gusse, or Forty Eyes.' I then 

 asked the peasants if this was the hot spring, as it evidently was not 

 the same described by Monsieur Chevalier. They replied that its 

 greatest heat might be observed during winter, and therefore that 

 it must be now hotf. It was a shallow pool of water, formed by 

 the united product of many small streams, issuing from several 

 cavities in the rock I have mentioned. This pool was quite over, 

 shadowed by some distant hills, behind which the sun was then sel- 

 ling; it was therefore a proper time for ascertaining the temperature, 

 both of the air and the water. A north wind had prevailed during 



* Places are named in Wales exactly after the same manner ; as PEN TRP. 

 FVNXYX, ' The. head of the three springs*' 



f Almost the only winter the Turks had in 1801 was during the month of 

 March. The peasants believe the heat to be greater at that season of the jear^ 

 merely because the external air is colder. The temperature of the water- U 

 always the same. 



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