



Catalogue of the Hot Springs of India. 



At intervals along the base of the great range of cliffs known as the 

 Western Ghats, which stretch almost continuously along the western 

 coast of the peninsula from Surat, north of Bombay, to Belgaum, and 

 are continued further to the south, though in a more broken range of 

 high ground, a large number of copious hot springs rise in the compara- 

 tively flat ground, known as the Konkan or Kokan, which forms a 

 narrow belt between the Ghats and the sea. Generally speaking, these 

 springs lie about 20 miles (from 12 to 24) from the coast, and a little 

 further from the hills which rise on the east. They occur both as single 

 isolated springs, and in groups of springs, where several issue within 

 a circle of small radius. 



Of these the most southerly known to me is Rajapur. I say the 

 most southerly known to me, because I find many marked far to the 

 south of this on Greenouglr's sketch map of the Geology of India ; but 

 I have not succeeded in finding any description of these, while the 

 general inaccuracy of the map prevents any confidence being placed 

 in such references. I have not therefore noticed these. 



JV". B. — The latitudes given in the following list are all northern, and the longitudes 

 are all east of Greenwich. The values given are generally taken from the sheets of the Atlas 

 of India. 

 1. Rajapt/b ..'. Lat. 16° 38' ; Long. 73° 36'; Elev. ; Temp. 105°. 



The spring is on the south side of the creek, or stream, on 

 which the town of Rajapur is situated, between the village 

 of Unali (or Oonali or Oonari) and this creek, on the face 

 of a small hill opposite to Raj apur below the intermittent 

 cold springs. There is only one hot spring. This is 

 in the Yiziadroog taluq, 20 miles from the Ghats and 

 12 from the sea. — Dr. Duncan, Trans. Med. Phys. 

 Soc, Bombay, Vol. I, 1838; India Jour. Med. Phys. 

 Science, Calcutta, Vol. V, or Vol. Ill, new series, page 524. 

 " Water issues from mouth of a stone cow into a small 

 tank." — Hazlewood, Trans. Geog. Soc, Bombay, X, page 

 xlii (1852). Rajpoor of Buist. Remarkable intermittent 

 cold spring near. See Giraud, Bom. Med. Phys. Soc, V, 

 256. 

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