SPRINGS or THE TROAS. 3Q7 
side of a bank, in which the water boils in a 
sey throwing out a thick, muddy, unctuous 
tn't!?^ yards from its mouth, with a hideous noise, 
ill hoii the river are several places where the 
’•t fin ^ intense a heat, that a person cannot 
into it without being scalded. On its banks 
H,*'<lera| 3 i ^P®ftures, out of which tlie steam rises to a 
' thg I® height, and is so hot tliat it cannot be approach- 
ilj Jo '‘'“id. In other parts, the spectator would be 
tl J'iig lliat the bellows of a hundred forges are 
'tjtfiuusg “°ricert ; while sulphureous streams issue out 
"^he bushes even, near these spots, 
''’hich brimstone, condensed from the 
til from the ground. In the small caverns 
steam issues, many of the inhabitants prepare 
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Vl."' >> SPRINGS OF THE TROAS. 
I Vt ’'“as 
I * ^ 1'rov ^ country of Phrygia, in Asia Minor, of 
ii capital, abounds with hot springs ; 
V ' '^lark which is thus desaabed by 
fignif't' It is situated near a place called Bonar- 
. l^'''fies hterally “ The head of the springs,” 
I Q,?®' P6udicularly out of the earth, rising from 
rtslv'^''h y, ^ inurble and granite reservoir, and throwing 
“s the famous fountain of Holywell in 
'? surface seems vehemently boiling j and, 
P'-'argj^ ®“ther, the condensed vapour above it, causes 
\ ',*ie of a ' " 
tl|^5*^®"ty stood at 46" in the open air, it rose, 
1^1 “IOmeter was plunged in the water, to 62®, 
Sijl^di''- ■''S the wnrmtli fhi« snrinor. 
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^ tliese springs, of difterciit degrees of 
cloud of smoke over the well. 
i warmth of this spring, — ... 
A g Hie],*' , c reservoir. In every part of the district 
lAa® Mender flow's, from Ida to the Helles- 
f lig already been described, in treating 
V'' l)?^*'s of’ surprising volcano. In following 
SV tioti phenomena of this nature gii'en above, 
tu of other bubbling, tepid, and boiling 
Vjp "cf be improper to premise that heat, 
‘““is of various kinds, exist in prodigious 
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