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XI. The HOT-BATHS of TIBERIAS. 
1. The fountain, or fource of them, is at the foot 
of a mountain, at the diftance of apiftol-fhot from 
lake Genazereth, and a quarter of a league from 
the coafts of Tiberias. 
2. 1 he mountain confifts of a black and brittle 
fulphureous ftone, which is only to be found 
in large mafles in the neighbourhood of Tibe- 
rias ; but in loofe ftones alfo on the coafts 
of the dead fea , as well as here at the lake Gena- 
zereth. They cut mill-ftones out of it in this 
place, which arefent by water from Acra to Egypt. 
I faw an incredible quantity of them at Damiata 
3 ■ The i'pring which comes from the mountain, 
is in diameter equal to that of a man’s arm, and 
there is one only. 
4. The water is fo hot, that the hand may be 
put into it without Raiding, but it cannot be 
kept there long; confequently it is not boilino- 
hot, but the next degree to it. 
5. It has a ftrong fulphureous fmell. 
6 . It taftes bitter, and fomewhat like common 
fait. 
7. The fediment depofed by the water is black, as 
thick as pafte, fmells ftrong of fulphur,and is cover- 
ed with two Ikins or cuticles, of which that beneath 
15 °f a fine dark green colour, and the uppermoft 
I a light rufty colour ; at the mouth of the out- 
let, where the water formed little cafcades over 
the ftones, the firft mentioned cuticle alone was 
l°und, and fo much refembled a conferva, that one 
tnight eafily have taken this, that belongs to the 
•tuneral kingdom, for a vegetable production ; 
° ut nearer the river, where the water ftood ltill, 
one 
