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complaints. The water at Dazagon is not exactly of the same 

 tendency, but you must remember the great benefit you derived 

 there some years ago. I wish you could have found lime to try 

 the baths at Vazarabhy, as well as to have drank the waters before 

 leaving Bombay, as you had no advantage of that kind in Guze- 

 rat. You would have had time after your return from Salsette, 

 and they would have strengthened you for the passage to Eu- 

 rope. I have great pleasure in complying with your wishes, by 

 enclosing an account of the hot wells at Vazarabhy, drawn up 

 some time ago by our friend B — , as you wished it for your col- 

 lection. I have not altered a word from the original paper in my 

 possession. 



An Account of the Hot Wells at Vazarabhy. 



About twenty-five miles north of Beunda, a town at the head 

 of Tannah river, formerly considerable for its trade, in a pleasant 

 extensive valley, surrounded by mountains, stand the pagodas of 

 Ramexauai* and Bhewexauar, famous for their natural hot springs; 

 which are preserved in baths elegantly made of hewn stone. The 

 face of the country, in the month of November, was rural and wild, 

 and the soil fertile to the last degree. But delightfully pleasant 

 as the Aveather was, and agreeable our situation, we soon found by 

 experience that the month of November was a very improper sea- 

 son for this excursion: a kind of epidemical fever pervaded every 

 village near us, and soon seized our servants to such a degree, that 

 before we had passed three weeks in our tents we were left almost 



