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Mr. Ludgwig Emck, in an Article on “The Mineral Springs of Australia,”* 
gives the temperature of these Springs as 189° F., and. says: — “The waters taken 
internally have an aperient action ; but patients undergoing treatment combine bathing 
with the drinking of the waters, two or three baths of a duration of twenty to thirty 
minutes being taken daily. These Springs have already gained a considerable 
reputation for their curative virtues in chronic rheumatism, gout, liver, and kidney 
diseases ; but like Karlsbad, in Bohemia, the most celebrated Thermal Spa in Europe, 
the Innot Hot Springs should also be invaluable in catarrh of the stomach and intestines, 
dyspepsia, constipation, dysentery, diseases of the genito-urinary organs, haemorrhoids, 
sterility, &c. The principal spring in Karlsbad is the ‘ Sprudel,’ with a temperature 
of 170°, or 19° lower than the Innot Springs, while in mineral salts the Karlsbad Springs 
arc considerably richer.” 
Mr. A. Gibb Maitland, in a report on “ The Coolgarra Tin Mines and Surrounding 
District, ”t says : — “ Between Gunnawarra Station and the Hot Springs, near Woodleigh, 
the road passes over rather flat sandy country, with scarcely a section visible. Probably 
the underlying country is granite. Within four miles of the Hot Springs, portions of the 
country are occupied by basalt. In the vicinity of the Hot Springs, the prevailing 
country rock is a granite of variable composition and texture, intersected by dykes of 
felsite and a rock not unlike a quartzite in appearance. 
“ The Springs are situated in the bed of Tnnot’s or Nettle’s Creek, a tributary 
of the Herbert River, and about two and three-quarter miles north-west of Woodleigh 
Station, at an altitude, by Aneriod, of 120 feet above Gunnawarra, or about 1,900 feet 
above sea-level. 
“ Tradition has it that some years ago the present site of the Springs was occupied 
by a large waterhole full of and overflowing with hot water. 
“ The only analysis of the water which is believed to have been made is that by 
the late Mr. Karl Staiger, sometime Government Analyst, who reported that the sample 
nalysed by him contained 61'126 grains of solid matter in one 
gallon, viz. : — 
Chloride of sodium 
... 25-245 
Aliunina and iron 
... 2-057 
Carbonate of Ume 
... 2-304 
Sulphate of lime ... 
... 6-230 
Silica 
... 6110 
Insoluble solids ... 
... 16-040 
Organic matter ... 
... 4-140 
Lithia 
... ... ... ..« 
... Trace 
“ This, however, must not be considered as conclusive, as it was made of a small 
quantity, quite insufficient for the purpose ; it will be seen that Mr. Staiger does not 
even mention the carbonates of soda and magnesia which the water is known to contain 
— in fact, in one hundred parts of solids the carbonate of soda constitutes 12' 8. J 
“ There appear to be at present two main outlets for the water at (a:) and (y), 
while in two small holes hot water is met with, but overflows very feebly. The outlet 
(ar) in the sandy bed of the creek, about nine feet from the eastern bank, is connected 
by piping with (y), which is about twenty feet further east. The outlet (s) has an 
elevation of from a foot to eighteen inches above the bed of the creek. 
“ Where the water emerges through the sand which fills the bed of the creek, a 
square tub has been inserted in the sand to collect it. The water overflows, and a good 
deal of it runs away down the creek. 
* Australian Medical Gazette, January, 1891, p. 104. 
t Brisbane : by Authority : 1891. 
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