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Water from a Hot Spring, Fiji Islands. 
By A. Liversiper, Professor of Geology and Mineralogy in the 
University of Sydney. 
[Read before the Royal Society of N.S.W., 1 September, 1880.] 
Wuew at Kandavu, Fiji Islands, in 1876, I heard of the boiling 
springs at Savu Savu, but to my great regret my stay of three or 
four days only at Kandavu was too short to allow me to visit them, 
and I am indebted to the kindness of Dr. T. D. spire R.N., 
for the sample of water forming the subject of this n 
The water was contained in clear glass bottles, “a sini and 
sealed. I mention this because the sample had evidently been 
collected with great care. On more than one occasion I have received 
samples of mineral waters which proved to be worthless for chemical 
irvestigation simply because insufficient care had been exercised 
in collection and bottling ; this was o teas a source of regret to 
of 
stoppered Soe but when stein e there is ae so 
Convenient and suitable as the large half-gallon bottles known as 
Winchester quarts. 
€ water was clear and oclor after the deposition of the 
small amount of matter which it h in suspension, free from smell, 
neutral, or but gd faintly alkaline. On evaporation to dryness 
the filtered water left a very white extremely deliquescent residue, 
be: on ignition fused but did not blacken, thus rode) the 
absence of any appreciable amount of organic matte 
60° F Specific gravity of the water was found to a 10064 at 
ing the residue at 110° O., was found to be 2 8,320 parts, per 
tion, or 582-40 per gallon ; but, after driving off the 
7,813 ed water at a d heat, the residue was red 
6-09 r million, or 546-91 grains per gallon—z.e. it lost 
rarer oe were carefully sought for in this residue by 
of Ws = the spectroscope, but none were found. The total quantity 
we my disposal was but small—some four pints ; perhaps 
