88 THERMAL WATERS OF ASIA MINOR. 



after which event it remained the capital of the Ottoman 

 Empire. 



Broosa is readily reached from Constantinople by a steamer 

 that goes from this latter place to Modania, on the gulf of the 

 same name, about seventy miles from Constantinople. From 

 Modania a ride of about twenty miles on horseback brings you 

 to Broosa, at the foot of the Bythinian Olympus. The warm 

 baths of this place have been celebrated from the earliest 

 epochs, and the visit of Constantine with his wife in 797 is 

 recorded in history as having resulted favorably in restoring 

 the latter to health. And at a still later period Sultan Soleman 

 the Great visited these baths on account of an attack of gout, 

 and to commemorate his cure he had a large dome constructed 

 over the source to which he attributed the beneficial effects 

 derived by him; the dome still stands. 



As it is not my object to enter here into the details of baths 

 well known to all travelers in this part of Asia Minor, I shall 

 at once proceed to the description of the sources. The sources 

 of thermal waters near Broosa are seven in number, all situ- 

 ated in a little valley which separates Mount Olympus from 

 Mount Katairli, and they are comprised within the distance 

 of a mile and a half. In the immediate neighborhood of some 

 of these sources, and sometimes in direct proximity, are sources 

 of cool and delightful water that serve to regulate the tempera- 

 ture of the water used in the baths, of which there are as many 

 as twenty private and public. These sources furnish waters 

 of two descriptions, the sulphurous and the non-sulphurous, 

 and I shall commence with a description of the former. 



Thermal Sulphur Waters. 



There are two sources of this class of water near Broosa, 

 or rather two places near to each other where it flows out 

 of the* mountain, for my examination goes to prove that they 

 are the same water. Their names are Kukurtlu and Bademii- 

 Baghtsche. 



KUKURTLU SOURCE. 



The name of the source signifies sulphur. It flows rapidly 

 from the side of the mountain near to its base, through a bed 

 of calcareous tufa, furnishing upward of twenty gallons a 



