^4 ■ Mr. Saunders’s Account of the 
with confiderable fiffures, and rendered ufelefs. The natives 
fay, a direct expofure to thefe winds occafions the lofs of their 
fore -teeth ; and our faithful guide afcribed that defeft in him- 
1 elf to this caufe. We efcaped with lofs of the (kin from the 
oreateft Dart of our faces. 
£3 A 
- Road to Seluh, Sept. 18. Near our road to-day found a 
hot well, much frequented by people with venereal com- 
plaints, rheumatifm, and all cutaneous difeafes. They do not 
drink the water, but ufe it as a bath. The thermometer, 
when immerfed in the water, rofe from 40 s to 88°. It has a 
ftrotig fulphureous fmell, and contains a portion of hepar 
fujphuris. Expofure to air deprives it, as moil other mineral 
wells, of much of its property. 
Road to Takui, Sept. 19. Pafs fome fields of barley and 
peafe, and get into a milder climate. Find to-day a great 
variety of (tone and rock, fome containing copper, and others, 
a very pure rock cryftal, regularly cryftallized, with fix une- 
qual fides. The rock cryftal is of different fizes and degrees 
of purity, but of one form. Find fome flint and granite, 
feverai fprings of water impregnated with iron, and nearly of 
the fame temperature with the atmofphere. See a few ill- 
thriving willows planted near the habitations, and which are 
the only trees to be met with. 
Road to Tiflbolumboo, Sept. 20, 21, and 22. The remain- 
ing part of our journey is over a more fertile foil, enjoying a 
milder climate. Some very good fields of wheat, barley, and 
peafe ; many pleafant villages and diftant houfes, lefs fand and 
more rock, part flaty, and much of it a very good fort of flint. 
The foil in the valley a light-coloured clay and fand. They 
are every where employed in cutting down their crop. What 
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