HOT SPRINGS. 211 



They occur among the primitive and secondary strata of 

 the peninsula, and flow from primitive and transition rocks 

 in the Himmalehs. Thus Heyne says he heard of a hot 

 spring situated in the middle of the river Godavery, near 

 Badrachellum, about 100 miles west from Rajahmundry. 

 .Spilsbury mentions two hot springs in the valley of the Ner- 

 budda, at the northern base of the Mahadeo hills. They 

 are much resorted to ; not indeed for medicmal purposes, 

 but principally as a place oi pooja or worship, though people 

 bathe at times for the cure of cutaneous disorders. At both 

 a sort of resen-oir has been constructed ; but the western 

 spring, near Sohagpoor, is the only one that can be bathed 

 in ; and even its heat is too great to allow a person to remam 

 in it above a few seconds, while the eastern one is so hot 

 that the hand can scarcely be dipped in it. Both emit a very 

 olfensive smell at the spring head ; but the water from the 

 western, on cooling, almost totally loses this smell; whereas 

 that from the eastern, or one near Futtypore, retains it a 

 long time. A lamp held over the place where the west or 

 Unhonee spring bubbles up is immediately extinguished ; 

 and at about five or six paces off is a cold spring. In a 

 paper by the late Dr. White, lately read before the Royal 

 Asiatic Society, mention is made of hot wells situated about 

 fifty miles south-east of Surat. The temperature of one 

 is 111° F., of another 120<^. Mr. H. Wilson notices hot 

 springs in Ramghur, that flow from the base of the granite 

 table-land of Hazareebagh. There are four springs at the 

 spot, varying considerably in temperature ; the water of one 

 is at the temperature of the atmosphere, that of another is 

 108"^ F., while that of the other two is severally 170° F. and 

 190° F. From the last of these arises much sulphuretted 

 hydrogen, the odour of which continues to be felt long after 

 the water is cool. The water yields a copious residuum 

 upon evaporation, having as its chief ingredients muriate 

 and sulphate of soda, with a very slight indication of sul- 

 phate of iron. It is not unpleasant to the taste, and the 

 cattle are said to be very fond of it. When drunk in suffi- 

 cient quantity it acts as a gentle aperient. Captain Frank- 

 lin mentions a hot spring flowing from neiv red sandstmie, 

 near the river Bagin, in the Pana diamond-district inBun- 

 delcund. In the neighbourhood of Uteer, a village about 

 thirty miles distant from Pooree, there is a hot mineral 



