94 THERMAL WATERS OF ASIA MINOR. 



of iron and magnesia and the sulphate of lime, without a trace 

 of fluorine. 



These various springs, it will be seen, supply nine public 

 baths, which vary in their size and magnificence, that of Yeni- 

 Kaplidja being the largest and most beautiful. They are con- 

 structed on the usual plan of the Eastern baths, and consist of 

 three parts. 



First, a large hall, with an elevated platform all around, two 

 feet high, and sometimes galleries attached. It is on the plat- 

 form that one disrobes himself prior to entering the bath, and 

 it is also here that the bather reposes on a couch in retiring 

 from the bath. This apartment is frequently ornamented with 

 considerable luxury ; it is well lighted, and there is sometimes 

 in the middle a fountain, the falling of whose waters in the 

 basin produces a freshness, and at the same time invites to 

 slumber. This apartment is called by the Turks Djamekian 

 (Vestiarium). 



The next division in the bath is the Soouklouk, where one 

 begins to experience the temperature of the inner bath, and 

 where he reclines on a marble slab, and is either shampooed 

 or places himself in the hands of the barber to be shaved, 

 cupped, or bled. 



The third division is the Hammam, or bath properly speak- 

 ing, where there is an atmosphere of 105° to 110° Fah., filled 

 with the vapor of water arising from the heated marble floor. 

 Here there are various recesses, with small marble basins, in 

 which streams of hot and cold water are allowed to flow; and 

 once seated by one of them, an attendant of the bath takes 

 possession of you and puts you through a series of operations 

 that can be better felt than described. The baths at Broosa 

 have usually in the Hammam a large basin of hot water, into 

 which the bathers can plunge; the one in the Yeni-Kajplidja is 

 about five feet deep by thirty in diameter. 



There is in some of these baths a small room called the 

 Boghoulouk (Sudatorium), where the temperature is from 120° 

 to 130° Fah. Once through the various operations of the bath, 

 one returns to the first room, reclines on a bed, and indulges 

 for a half hour or more in the Eastern luxuries of smoking and 

 drinking coffee or sherbet. 



This is a hasty sketch of the operations that the bather 



