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bathing purposes. Unfortunately, there is not the least facility for its use, as 

 the small hut which one of the patients had built upon its banks has since 

 been destroyed. The nearest locality where patients can find quarters is an 

 accommodation-house, a few miles distant. It is therefore impossible for 

 delicate patients to make any use of the springs at present, except under the 

 most unfavourable circumstances, and with the imminent danger of aggravating 

 their complaints by taking cold. 



But notwithstanding all these great disadvantages, this basin has restored 

 the health of many persons coming from various parts of New Zealand, and 

 even from Australia. The greater number of the patients were sufferers from 

 acute or chronic rheumatism, boils, and similar disordei's ; and from all I could 

 learn from a few of them, and from some gentlemen in the neighbourhood, 

 whose authority is reliable, the waters in most cases had a wonderful effect. 

 It seems, therefore, that in many respects the springs may be compared with 

 those of Aix-la-Chapelle, in Germany, and Cheltenham and Harrowgate, in 

 England, which are used for the same complaints, and the principal mineral 

 contents of which are sulphuretted hydrogen. Every well-wisher of the 

 colony will, I am sure, share my sincere regret that these springs are still in 

 their natural state, or even worse, being much disturbed by cattle, and that no 

 means have yet been taken to have them enclosed, proper buildings erected 

 near them, and to make their existence known over New Zealand and the 

 Australian colonies. 



Close to the large basin, No. 1, are two small shallow pools, one of which 

 is situated at the south-eastern corner, and is only a few feet in circumference. 

 The water, which rises in it in a few bubbles, has the same taste and smell as 

 the main basin, with a temperature of only 78° 3'. This lesser degree of heat 

 may be accounted for by the circumstance that the water rises only in small 

 quantities in this spring, which has, like the preceding one, a fine muddy 

 bottom. 



Another small basin. No. 3, is situated at the eastern extremity of the 

 principal basin. Its water showed a temperature of 106° 8', and exhibited all 

 the same properties which characterize the first described spring. 



About fifty yards to the south of No. 1 is another basin, which has a 

 diameter of ten feet. Numerous bubbles rise in and near its centre, where I 

 found the temperature to be 103°, whilst on the shallow sides it diminished to 

 98° v. The water of this basin is also clear, and, although still showing the 

 presence of sulphuretted hydrogen, this peculiarity is much less predominant 

 than in that of the previously described springs. Its outlet is well defined, 

 joining, after a course of about thirty yards, the swampy creek which flows 

 from No. 1. 



About thirteen yards from No. 4, in a south-west direction, another small 

 basin is situated; it is very shallow, and the water (which has only a 



