$ So A JOURNEY TO LAKE 



very draggling manner from the villages whence they had been prefTed, 

 we could not leave the ground till 8. At 6816 paces reach a hut taken 

 lion of by our fervants. This is computed to be feven cos from 



'Aftei having reached the top of the firft mountain, Mr. Hearsay, 

 sad gone before me, killed a very thin yellow fnake, about 18 

 inches in length. I found it had the poifonous fang, but it is aflerted 

 that fnakes and all other venomous reptiles are very fcarce in this part 

 of the country,, However, on taking up the carpet on which I had 

 ilept* a black fcorpion came from under it. 



A warm fpring, which we paHed early in this day's march, ifTues from 

 the rock on the right of the road in a ftream of about five inches acrofs 

 and three deep, and threw up a fmall cloud of fleam. At its efcape the 

 heat was fo great that the finger could not bear being dipped in it more 

 than 2 or 3 feconds. The thermometer having been carried forwards, 

 we were prevented from afcertaining the temperature : however no in- 

 fers were in it or about it, and fome plants which had fallen into it 

 near the middle of the current were killed and feemed parboiled. 

 The pebbles in its bed, and the vegetable fubftances which were im- 

 merfed in ir, were covered with a yellow coat, and thofe which had 

 been taken out and become dry were likewife coated with a white 

 earthy fubftance having little tafte: however the water itfelf was 

 flightly auftere, and I apprehend contained iron without any other mix- 

 ture. The tepid ftream at Tapo'ban which is much lower and not half 

 a mile diftant probably proceeds from the fame fource with this, and is 

 cooled in its progrefs to the place at which it efcapes below. I faw no 

 appearance of volcano in. this or any other mountain which I have yet 

 met with ; but many abound with minerals j arid pyrites is found in 

 great abundance. 



