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kote, and five days' journey in a northerly and somewhat 

 westerly direction from Katmandu. Its water flows from 

 a black-looking rock, and forms a clear pool 4 or 5 feet in 

 diameter by 2 feet in depth. There are no weeds in it, 

 but its sides and bottom are covered with the white sub- 

 stance of which I have sent a specimen. This spring is 

 said to have a disagreeable smell and an unpleasant salty 

 taste, and the people in its neighbourhood consider that 

 invalids derive much benefit from bathing in it. It is 

 said that it is sufficiently hot to cook rice in, and the per- 

 sons who went to the spring to bottle the water told me 

 that, although they put their hands into it, they could not 

 bear to hold them in it for any length of time. 

 125. Tata pani ... Lat. ; Long. ; Elev. ; Temp. 



The Tata Pani springs are five days' journey from Kat- 

 mandu in the Listi direction, or nearly north-east of the 

 capital, and issue from the base of a very precipitous 

 mountain in the west bank of an d close to the River Snn- 

 kusi. There are two or three small springs close together 

 which unite and form a pool of 4 or 5 feet in diameter and 

 one hand in depth. There is no crusty sediment in this 

 pool, its bottom and sides being of a dark-coloured sand; 

 the water is too hot to admit of the hand being suddenly 

 plunged into it, and it is said to smell like gunpowder that 

 has been exploded, and has a nauseous taste. Bubbles 

 were seen rising from this spring, and its waters are consi- 

 dered to be very beneficial to invalids, particularly, I am 

 told, to persons who have lost their strength or are suffer- 

 ing from the effects of protracted sickness, and many 

 persons go from a considerable distance to bathe in them. I 

 gave particular directions that I might be furnished with 

 pieces of the rocks in the neighbourhood of these springs, 

 but I have not succeeded in procuring any ; and the 

 persons who were sent to them for the water inform me 

 that, in consequence of their being considered sacred, no 

 persons would be allowed to fracture the rocks in their 

 immediate vicinity. 



In Eastern Nepal, Mr. B. H. Hodgeson of Darjiling lias obtained, 

 through^native collectors, information of several mineral springs, of 

 which, however, only two are hot. 



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