14 OLDHAM : THERMAL SPRINGS OP INDIA. 



ridge, called Buddhro hill, is marked south-west of Jhin- 

 garah. The position given is approximately that of the 

 springs. It is very possibly the same as the preceding 

 spring mentioned by Masson. 



35. Kandhab ... Lat. 26° 14'; Long. 67° 35' ; Elev. ; Temp. 



Ten miles south of Naing. — Official Records. Kandhar is 

 not marked in the Atlas of India ; but a place called 

 Kanda Shah is given, about 16 miles south of Gorandi, 

 whose position is given above. 



36. Lakhi ... Lat. 26° 16'; Long. 67° 55'; Elev. abt. 150; Temp. 105°. 



About 15 miles from Sehwan, on road to Hydrabad 

 (Sind). There are several springs, of which three are 

 hot. The spot is sacred to Parbutti and Mahadeo. Two 

 are called Surya and Chandra-kund (fountains of the sun 

 and moon.) " If a patient plunges in without first con- 

 fessing to the priest in attendance, he comes out covered 

 with boils." — Todd, Rajasthan, II, 334. There are three 

 springs close together, whose temperatures are 102°, 103°, 

 and 105° ; the stones in the stream flowing from them 

 are covered with red, yellow, and white deposits.— Baker 

 and Maclagan, J. A. S. B., XVII, ii, 230. Another 

 hot spring in the hills west of the Indus river, a 

 little below Sehwan ; sulphur mines near. Masson, 

 Beloochistan, &c, III, 148. Under the Dharun hill, issues 

 from the centre of face of mountain, under a cliff of lime- 

 stone, temp. 120°. Water like that of the Mugger-pir 

 hill ; said to have been tapped by Lai Shah Baz, a saint who 

 stands to the Sindians in the same relation as Moses to 

 the Hebrews. There are pucka tanks and a dhurmsala. — 

 Macdonald, Surv. Rep., 1861-62, Appendix xxxii. Dr. 

 Hunter, in the Medical History of the 2nd Queen's Regi- 

 ment, gives the same temperature in 1840, 103°-104°. — 

 Trans. Med. Phys. Soc, Bombay, III, 136. 



Can the difference between these records of temperature and 

 that of Major Macdonald be accounted for by difference 

 in graduation of thermometers, or does it (105° up to 

 1840, 120° in 1860) point to an actual increase in the 

 temperature of the water ? See sheet 40 of Siud Revenue 

 Survey. 

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