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threatened, fdl with loud burPis cF thunder, which was av/fally rever- 

 berated from rock to rock : andj during the night, more than once the 

 found was heard of fragments from the brows of the mountains crafh- 

 ing down b'^ the depths below ; our quarters were good, in a temple^ . 

 neat and ckau, arid ft cure fiom the weather* 



We- left FaV/^ wit^^ :, .1..c morning, after a rainy night; following the- 

 Muiia Gdi'k ready to its mouth, we turned to our left and followed our 

 couric as befo! ?, up tlie river lide, afcending till the path was from % 

 to ^0.0 yards above its itream; the road hence is very bad, to jyari Gdd'hs. 

 a finah iiream, that rifcs from one of the fmaller peaks of Backunchu; at 

 its mouth there is a peninfulated rock of confiderable heighth, on which 

 there is an old fort^ called .l/^r/ Gerhi the rock is conne^:led with 

 the mountains" over-h;vjj^ing the river by a low neck of land, which is 

 cultivated, -At the bottom of th© rock, and in the bed of the nver, there 

 are feveral fmall Tprings of hot- water, Vvhich we went to fee ; iome of 

 thefe fources, we obferved, arofe with confiderable force from the fur« 

 face of the earth, quite clofc u the folia rock, giving a flream of 3 or 4 

 fingers thicknefs, and much came trickling down from between the 

 lamina of the rock, of which- the hill is formed. Thefe lamina are in 

 large white flikes^ and eonfift, I believe, entirely of quartz -, they forna 

 an angle of about Q5 to 70, with the plane of the horizon. The water 

 is beautifully clear, it is more than blood-warm, and is ilrongly im- 

 pregnated with acid : it has much of the fmell common to fulphureous 

 fprings, and is probably impregnated with this fubftance, and 

 with iio:i ; fjr the rocks around were tinged and incrufted with a red 

 matter, refemhling rail of iron mixed^ with clay or lime. Quite clofe 

 toihe warm fprings, and in the flream they form, a cold one bubbles 

 ii:3, but the mixture is fo immedi.ite, th^it it is impofhblc:: to fay, whether 

 the acid, which it alfo contains, is communicated from the warm water : 



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