MEMOIRS 



OF THE 



GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF INDIA. 



The Thermal Springs of India, by the late T. Oldham, ll.d., f.r.s., 

 &c, Superintendent of Geological Survey of India. Edited by R. D. 

 Oldham, a.r.s.m., Geological Survey of India. 



Preface. 

 The hot springs of India have attracted the notice of many observers. 

 In the majority of instances these remarkable outbursts of water, at a tem- 

 perature considerably above that of the waters or even of the atmosphere 

 in the neighbourhood, often charged with various gases and emitting 

 strong odours, have been endowed by the superstitious and ignorant 

 with wondrous virtues, or have been supposed to be the result of some 

 miraculous interposition of divine energy. In this way the more re- 

 markable of these springs have become widely known and spoken of, 

 and travellers have frequently been induced to visit them and record 

 the results of their examination. And thus for many of those recorded 

 in the following pages, numerous references could be given. Others 

 again are situated in out-of-the-way, distant, wild, and unfrequented 

 localities, and the only record of their existence may be a single notice 

 in the pages of some traveller, whom peculiar circumstances may have 

 compelled to pass by that route. 



The references given in the present list of these springs will show 



the varied sources from which information of their existence has been 



obtained. I should be sorry, however, that any one should imagine that 



this list is supposed to be complete, or even approximately complete. 



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