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the ,.hpd,, and.is § Ijffljjp wipifa It. is rubbed into powde^ wltfi cafe, and 

 th.-n mixed with qil which unites with the fulphur, and the calcareous 

 flatter fubfides. Coal has not yet been found by the natives ; and fuel is 

 only afforded Ly the furze in im all quantity, if fuel were plentiful 



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] apprehend, that miny hundreds of toys of fulphur might be obtained 

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fro.Ti this cavern, arid, the immediately iuxroundin,^ calcareous racJb- 

 which, even where . whi'.e-, is. li'ghly charged, with, fulphur.. Immedi- 

 ately in front of the moudi of the cavern, and forming a& fewere, its- 

 threfhold, is a mound oi" calcareous ftDne, through chink? of which-- 

 fpring many jets of hot-water perfectly tranfparent,. and of a finell and 

 fcade . veiy fimilar to that of HaiTQ.wgate._- The vafi walls and mafles. of 

 rock which have been formed by the action of hot fp rings in this neigh-. 

 bourhood, fhew aa antiquity: that bafiles refearcli and would afford* 

 food for fceptics* 



The town of Kieii lung, confiding of about a hundred frnali houfes 

 built of unburnt bricks painted grey and red, is limited upon the fum- 

 suit of a duller of fpires or natural pillars of indurated clay in the face 

 of high banks of the (am- material, which overtop it hy at lea ft a hun- 

 dred feet, whilftthe towa itfelf is, at lead goo feet above the bed of 

 the river, and in a red- ing angle.. This kind of (ituation. Terns panicu- 

 larly affected by the Unias for their winter .reriremenjis.; and die Drefer- 

 cnce is fraud 'd uo >n judicious principles ; for, from the conical fbape 

 of the pinna: les winch form, the foundation of. the houfes, the fno.v 

 flioi from them and fall.* into the valley below, the height of" the rocks 

 behind guards them from the fore: of the win Js, which ftveepover 

 the fummits of the hill;, and. the elevation of the town above the le, 

 vel of the pi \h\ prevents- the inhabitants from feeling tKe blafh which 

 frequently rulh along the coir fe of the river with a violence which can 

 icarcely be conceived,— At prefent from this being the fcafon molt 



