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called Purgatorium, of which the people have some odd and scrupulous ap- 

 prehensions. The second is covered with a cupola, and stands near the same 

 hill, but more into the town, and near a place where they use tanning. The 

 third is called the bath of the green pillars, though at present they are of a red 

 colour. The water is hot, but tolerable without addition of cold water. It is 

 impregnated with a petrifying juice, which discovers itself on the sides of the 

 bath, on the spouts and other places, and makes a gray stone : and the exhal- 

 ation from the bath, reverberated by the cupola, by the irons extended from 

 one column to another, and by the capitals of the pillars, forms long stones 

 like icicles, which hang to all the said places ; such as may be observed in many 

 subterraneous grottos, and particularly in England in Okey Hole in Somerset- 

 shire, and Pool's Hole in Derbyshire. The water is let out at night, when the 

 women have done bathing, who often stay late. The bath is set round about 

 with large pillars supporting a cupola, which has openings to let out the steam, 

 and yet the whole room continues to be a hot stove. 



The baths of the west end of the town are, 1 . Tactalli or the bath of the 

 table ; a small bath covered ; the water white, and of a sulphureous smell. 

 They drink of this as well as bathe in it. What they drink, they receive from 

 a spout, bringing the water into this place. I delivered a five sols piece to a 

 Turk bathing in it, to gild for me, which he did in about a minute, by rubbing 

 it between his fingers while the hot water fell from the spout upon it. 2. Barut 

 Degrimene, or the bath of the powder-mill. It rises in an open pond near the 

 highway, and mixes with the fresh springs, so that the pond is of a whitish 

 colour in one part, and clear in the other, as also cold and hot in several parts. 

 3. Cuzzoculige, the little bath, or the bath of the Saint; for which name the 

 Turks give a superstitious reason. It is kept by Turkish Monks. The bath 

 where the springs rise, is so hot as scarcely to be endured ; but being let out 

 into another bathing place at some distance, it becomes tolerable, and fit for 

 use. This water has neither colour, smell, nor taste different from common 

 water, and deposes no sediment ; only the sides of the bath are green, and 

 have a fungous substance all over. 4. Kaplih, a very noble bath, but part of 

 the building was consumed this year (1669) by a great fire which happened in 

 Buda ; but is by this time repaired by the Turks. The water is very hot, not 

 without a petrifying juice in it. The building about is octangular, with a noble 

 bath in the middle ; with a circle of a trench of water about it for the better 

 ornament. On every «de it has a niche wherein is a fountain. In the middle 

 of the antichamber, where they leave their clothes, there is also a fair stone 

 basin and a fountain. 5. The bath of Velibey ; which has a strong sulphure- 

 ous smell, and a petrifying quality; and is so hot, that to make it tolerable. 



