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i* .- . /. Laiorence Smith on the Thermal Waters of Asia Minor. 1 1 



As it is not my object to enter here into the details of baths 



il well known to all travellers in this part of Asia Minor, I shall at 



_, once proceed to the description of the sources. The sources of 



^" thermal wuiers near Broosa are seven in number, all situated in a 



little valley whicli separates Mount Olympus from Moiud Ka- 

 tairli^ and they are comprised within the distance of a mile and a 

 half. In the immediate neighborhood o( some o( these sources, 

 lib and sometimes in direct proximity, are sources of cool and delight- 



ful water that serve to regulate the temperature of the water used 

 in the baths, of which there are as many as twenty private and 

 public. These sources furnish waters of two description, the 

 sulphtu'ons and the non-sulphurous, and I shall commence with 

 a description of the former. 



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TPIER.MAL SULPHUR WATERS. 



There are two sources of this class of water near Broosa, or 

 rather two places near to each other where it flows out of the 

 mountain, for my examination goes to prove that they are the same 

 water. Their names are Kakurtla and Bademli-Baglitscke. 



Kiikurtlii Source. 



The name of the source signifies sulphur. It flows rapidly 

 from the side of the mountain near to its base, through a bed of 



calcareous tufa, furnishing upwards of twenty gallons a minute, 



which J along with the water from a cold spring near by^ is made 



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♦ to flow through the baths. There is a very sensible odor of sul- 



phuretted hydrogen proceeding from the water of this source, 

 more especially as it issues forth from the mountain, for there is 

 j a large amount of gas bubbling through the smalt reservoir into 



* which the water rises, accompanied with a larger amount of 



I vapor. As the water flows it leaves an incrustation of carbonate 



J of lime, more or less colored with some organic matter. This 



source is held in particular veneration by ihe Greeks of the conn- 

 try, who usually assemble here twice a year to commemorate the 

 f / martyrdom of St. Patrice, which was ordered by the Pro-consul 



of Broosa, and executed by his being thrown into this almost 



boiling spring 



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The country is geolociically made np of the older rocks, as 

 ' granite, gneiss, limestone, &c., a silicious variety of the latter over- 



lying the other two; in some parts, however, the limestone is re- 

 markably pure, and has doubtless furnished to these waters that 

 carbonate of lime so extensively deposited at the base of this part 

 of the mountain in the form of tufa, which, for a mile or two of 

 extent, rises several hundred feet above the plain at the foot of the 

 ' mountain. ^ 



Physical Properties.— The water as taken from the source is 



perfectly clear and transparent, and remains so when kept in well 



I corked bottles, but other w^e a yellow deposit is soon formed which 



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