212 HOT SPRINGS. 



sprin<T • but Dr. Brander, who mentions it, gives no details 

 in regard to its temperature. Setacuno on the Ganges, 

 according to Dr. Adam, is celebrated on account of it^ hot 

 spring, which, like those in Southern Africa, described m a 

 ■former volume of the Family Library, issues from quartz 

 rock. This sprintr is about 500 or 600 yards from the river. 

 When Dr. Adam visited it in November, it was running in 



'■ full stream ; but before and during the early part of the rainy 

 season he was told it always dried up, and when low indi- 



' cates merely the common temperature. He found the sen- 

 sation of heat intolerable when the hand was immersed in 

 it, and the thermometer stood at 140° F. at all parts, as well 

 near the surface as within a few inches of the bottom. Lx- 

 ceptintrthe increase in the temperature, this water possesses 

 no sen'sible properties different from rain or common spring 

 water ; it is clear and tasteless : gas was constantly disen- 

 Satred from the surface in large bubbles, but the nature of 

 the" eras has not been determined. Many virtues are attrib- 

 uted' to the waters in the cure of diseases ; and the Brainins 

 who take charge of it derive considerable emolument from 

 the crowds resorting thither for relief. Mr. Ludlow de- 

 scribes a hot sprin-T at the town of Sonah, about thirty-hve 

 miles we?t from Delhi and fifteen from Goorgaon, at the 

 eastern face of the Mewat hills, which are of sandstone, with 

 dispersed iron ore. Close to one of the most craggy and 

 precipitous of this range is the spring in question, which 

 issues out of a hollow dug in the rock. 1 he water, being 

 at a temperature of 108° F., is seen bubbling up, abundantly 

 charged with gas, and so impregnated with sulphur as to 

 diffuse a strono- smell through that part of the town in which 

 the sprincT is situated. The well is cut out of the solid rock, 



,■ about thirty feet deep, in the centre of a basin sixteen feet 

 square, with steps leading down to the water for the con- 

 venience of bathing. The whole is covered by a beautiful 

 dome of ancient architecture, and surrounded by apartments 

 with open verandas, which form a court or area. Mr. Lud- 

 low says the water contains no iron, and may be classed 

 with the strongest of the sulphureous waters. 



At Jauvi, on the northern bank of the Sutledge, eight or 

 ten hot springs burst forth a few feet from the river. A 

 thermometer plunged into one of them rose to 1 30^;° F., while 

 the temperature of the river at the time, the Ist of October, 



