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and chiefly salt. The other hot springs of Scinde that I am acquainted 

 with, are the Lukkee and Gazee Peer springs ; the latter I have not my- 

 self seen, but Lt. Maclagangave me the following account of it. " There 

 is a hot spring on a considerably elevated plateau upon the hill called 

 Bhil, above Gazee Peer, a saint's shrine, a few miles west of Shah Hus- 

 sun, on the Munchar Lake. Temperature of the spring not observed ; 

 I could not hold my hand in it for any length of time. The water fills a 

 small reservoir under a clump of trees, then escapes in a narrow stream 

 which flows along to the edge of the plateau, and throws itself over the 

 rock in a white cascade." I was unable to visit it, as I had intended 

 doing, but the sulphur springs near the village of Lukkee, I visited ; the 

 following is a memorandom of their temperature. Like the springs a 

 Mungul Peer, they are three in number, but are much more highly im- 

 pregnated with sulphur, but their temperature is not so great. 



Temperature of sulphur springs near Lukkee pass, loiver Scinde. 



1st Spring at 12 a. m. Temp, of water 102° Farh. of air in shade 82° Farh, 

 2nd Spring at 1212 a. m. Do. Do. 103° " Do. in sun 86 Farh." 

 3rd Spring at 2 p. m. Do. Do. 105° " Do. in shade 68 Farh." 



Water boiled at third spring by my Thermometer, at 212° 75 7 , and at 

 Kurratchee by same Thermometer at 214° — Difference, 1° 25'. 



Nos. 1 and 2 might almost be called one spring, as they are separated 

 only by a foot or two of rock . No. 3, being some little distance from them 

 at the foot of left hand, and largest cleft, but the waters of all unite and flow 

 through the lower range or rather ridge of rocks, and are then lost in the 

 sandy bed of what must, during the rains, be a mountain torrent ; the water 

 collected in the pools, while I was there had an azure hue : there is a great 

 deal of sediment contained in it on first issuing from the rocks, which is 

 deposited, as it flows along the margins of the stream and on the stones 

 at its bottom in a red, yellow and white, and all three combined crust- 

 like congealed froth, but what it contains I know not, I had no means 

 of analysing the water properly, for I had no scales to weigh the water 

 experimented upon, or the residuum after evaporation ; but on adding a 

 little nitrate of silver to about a wine glass full of the water, a consi- 

 derable flaky white deposit fell immediately to the bottom, which shortly 

 after acquired a violet hue, and on exposure to the sun's rays became 

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