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The highest temperature of tliis spring is ISTF. There is here a 



strong confervoid growth which forms felt-like 

 Temperature. . '^ 



masses in the pools warmed hy the water, but I 

 did not observe any modification of the herbaceous or arboreal vegetation. 



Mr. Forbes in his Settlement lieport says that he only knows of one 

 hot spring in Palamow, which is at Mundul in tuppeh Bari, and of 

 which the temperature is 180°F. As I understood from him that he 

 had not himself visited the spot, I am inclined to believe that the locality 

 given to him may have been Mundul, otherwise known as Jodah, which 

 is however in tuppeh Durjag, and is not far from Thatha, and that there- 

 fore the present spring was meant. There is also a Mundul in tuppeh 

 Bari, and hence perhaps the confusion arose. I think I should most 

 probably have heard, when in that tuppeh, if there had been a distinct hot 

 spring in Bari. 



In the Tatapani field in the Sirguja district west of the Kun- 

 hur, the hot springs have given a name to the 

 ^Hot springs at Tata- ^iHagg, and also to the tuppeh or parganah in 

 which they occur. 



They constitute, from their number and their copious outpourings, a 

 very remarkable, and, in this part of India at least, a unique display. 

 They are all arranged with one exception on, or in, the immediate vici- 

 nity of a strong ridge f)f pseudomorphic quartz and breccia, 'which evi- 

 dently marks a line of fracture, since a little further west it cuts off and 

 bounds the coal measures, while to the east in the Hutar field the 

 faulted boundary is on exactly the same line of strike ; and although in 

 the former case the downthrow is on the north and in the latter on the 

 south, the line of fracture along which the movement of subsidence of 

 the coal measures took place, in both cases respectively, may be iden- 

 tical, but the continuity has not yet been fully established, as the inter- 

 vening sections have not been examined. This agreement in strike, vide 

 map, is probably something more than a mere coincidence, and accordingly 

 attention is here directed to it with a view to future examination. 



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