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hot springs, and three baths of different dimensions; varying in 
heat from 104 to 108 degrees: the cases in which the external and 
internal use of these waters has been most successful, are visceral 
obstructions: I am not acquainted with their component parts, or 
particular classification; being chatybeate and purgative, their 
general effect in drinking and bathing, is to carry off superfluous 
bile, create an appetite, and promote perspiration: by relaxing 
the fibres, without exhausting the strength, they seem peculiarly 
adapted to invigorate the system, and counteract the languor, in- 
cident to Europeans in the torrid zone. The Dazagon wells are 
in essential respects similar to those at Visraboy, in another part 
of the Concan, nearer to Bombay; and much resorted to by the 
ladies and gentlemen from thence. 
The voyage from Fort Victoria to Dazagon affords an inland 
navigation of great variety: the river, seldom wider than four or 
five hundred yards, winds through a chain of hills, stored with 
timber, or covered with jungle; and the banks are fringed with 
salt-wood, an ever-green resembling the laurel: an opening valley 
sometimes presents a view of arable land, villages, and cattle; 
succeeded by woody mountains, water-falls, and precipices: in 
the narrow parts the branches unite over the stream, which is 
enlivened by monkeys, squirrels, and various kinds of birds; all 
familiar, from being seldom molested: among the halcyon tribes, 
displaying all the vivid tints of azure, green, and orange, common 
in other countries, is a black and white king-fisher, with an elegant, 
tuft of the same plumage, not seen at Bombay. 
Few prospects exceed that from Dazagon hill, where the Eng- 
lish resident of Fort Victoria had a small villa, in which we spent 
