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that the locality is not regarded as being one of particular sanctity. 

 In any more civilised part of India, it would be assuredly a place of 

 annual resort and the site of a mela. 



On the same line of strike and at a distance of 24 miles west- 

 south-west of Tatapani, and 8 miles north of Pertabpur, there is 

 another hot spring known to exist. From its name, Ganduani, its con- 

 nection with gandak, or sulphur, is indicated. That a connection is 

 believed by the natives to exist I learnt from the late Kaja of 

 Sirguja, who first told me of the spring in 1871. Its position is marked 

 on the Atlas sheet. 



Note. — The names Tataka, Thatha and Tatapani — all indicate the presence of hot 

 springs. I have used the spelling of the maps, as there seemed to be a slightly different 

 pronunciation in the case of Thatha, but the names have, of course, all the same origin and 

 derivation. 



