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well. The marble and s-ranite slabs around it chap. 
V. 
are of great antiquity; and its appearance, '■ y ^ 
in the midst of surrounding trees, is highly 
picturesque. The mercury had now fallen, in 
the external air, to 46", the sun being down; 
but when the thermometer was held under 
water, it rose as before, to 62°. Notwith- 
standing the warmth of this spring, fishes were 
seen sporting in the reservoir. When held 
in the stream of either of the two channels 
which conduct the product of these springs 
into a marsh below, the temperature of the 
water was diminished, in proportion to its 
distance from the source whence it flowed. 
We repeated similar observations afterwards, 
both at midnight, and in the morning before 
sun-rise ; but always with the same results. 
Hence it is proved, that i\\Q fountains oiBonarhashy 
are all of them luarm springs; and there are 
many such springs, of different degrees of tem- 
perature, in all the district through which the 
Mender flows, from Ida to the Hellespont. That 
the tiuo channels conveying these streams towards Possible 
111 aHusion in 
the Scamander may have been the AOIAI IlHrAI Homer to 
oi' Homer \ is at least possible: and when it is tamslt^' 
considered, that a notion still prevails in the i^'^J' 
(l) The following is a literal translation of the words of the f'etietia?i 
ikholiast, upon II. X. 148. " Two fountains J'rom the Scamander rise 
in the plain; but the fountains nf the Scamander are not in the plaiuK* 
