38 OLDHAM : THERMAL SPRINGS OF INDIA 



ter, perfectly clear and leaving no deposit. A free dis- 

 charge of gas occurs, which burns in a receiver with a 

 steady blue flame, the smell being like that of hydro- 

 carbons. The eastern spring is 8 miles from the bound- 

 ary of the basin, a few feet above the bank of a small 

 stream, where it cuts a gap through a strong east-and-west 

 trap-dyke ; it seems to be in the line of the centre of the 

 dyke, and has a copious discharge of water. The western 

 spring is 1 mile from the boundary of the basin on the 

 south side, and at the very edge of a strong run of trap. 

 There is one principal spring with a small discharge of 

 water barely cool enough to bathe in. Gas is more abun- 

 dant than in the eastern spring. For more than quarter 

 of a mile along the dyke, gas and water — some hot, some 

 cold — ooze out at many spots. — H. B. Medlicott, G. S. I. ; 

 compare also Spilsbury, Trans. Med. Phys. Soc, Calcutta, 

 III, 450. Water smells of sulphur. All salts are in 

 minute quantities, sulphates, muriated and carbonated 

 alkalies. — Prinsep, Gleanings in Sci., Ill, 17. "The 

 first word (anhoni) means to wash, and samoni to mix 

 cold water with warm water ; hence Anhoni Samoni, 

 'lukewarm water washing-place,' would be a good name 

 for hot springs." — Bloclimann, MSS. letter. These are 

 the Hoshungabad No. 28 of SchlagintiveW s list, but the 

 latitude and longitude given are those of the town, which 

 is several miles off. Names are spelled Unhone and 

 Amoni on the survey maps. 



j5/. Budi. ... Lat. 22° 37'; Long. 78° 47' ; Elev. : Temp. 



Eight and a half miles east by north of the Western Anhoni ; 

 temperature is tepid, but it gives off the same kind of 

 gas as those at Anhoni. 



158. Bahaiha ... Lat. ; Long. ; Elev. ; Temp. 



A hot spring is said to exist in the bed of the Babaiha nala, 

 in the Mandla district. — Official Returns. 



159. Deoei ... Lat. 23° 33' ; Long. 80° 36' ; Elev. ; Temp. 82°. 



Is a little to the west of the village of that name near the 

 Mahanandi* river; the temperature of the water of the 

 river was 64°. The spring issues from the natural junction 

 of the Bijawar and Jabalpur rocks ; the water is tasteless. — 

 C. A. Hacket, Geol. Surv., India. 

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