03 clarke’s travels, 
the temperature of the external air was lowered to 47 Q . F tom 
hence I proceeded to the hot spring of M. Chevalier; and could 
not ayoid being struck by the plausible appearance it offered, 
for those who wished to find here a hot and cold spring, as 
fountains of the Scamander. It gushes perpendicularly out of 
the earth, rising from the bottom of a marble and granite reser¬ 
voir, and throwing up as much water as the famous fountain of 
Holy well in Flintshire. Its surface seems vehemently boiling ; 
and during cold 'weather, the condensed vapour above it causes 
the appearance of a cloud of smoke over the well. The mar¬ 
ble and granite slabs around it are of great antiquity ; and its 
appearance, in the midst of surrounding trees, is highly pictu¬ 
resque. 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°. Notwithstanding 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 diminished, in proportion to its dis¬ 
tance from the source w hence it flow ed. I repeated similar ob¬ 
servations afterward, both at midnight, and in the morning be¬ 
fore sunrise; but always with the same results. Hence it is 
proved, that the fountains of Bonarbashy are warm springs; of 
which there are many, of different degrees of temperature, in 
all the district through which the Mender flows, from Ida to the 
Hellespont. That the two channels which convey them toward 
the Scamander may have been the aoiai xiHrAi of Homer, # 
is at least possible : and when it is considered, that a notion 
still prevails in the country, of one being hot, and the other cold ; 
that the women of the place bring rdl their garments to be w ashed 
in these springs, not according to the casual visits of ordinary 
industry, but as an ancient and established custom, in tiie exer¬ 
cise of which they proceed with all the pomp and songs of a 
public ceremony ; it becomes perhaps probable ,f The remains 
of customs belonging to the most remote ages are discernible in 
the shape and construction of the wicker cars, in which the 
linen is brought upon these occasions, and.which are used all 
*The following is a literal translation of the words of the Venetian scholiast, upon 
II. X. 148. “ Two fountains ./Vom the Scamander rise in the plain ; bat the fountains 
(g/’the Scamander are not in the plain.” 
1 The full description of such a ceremony occurs in the sixth book of the Odyssey, 
where it is related, that the daughter of Alcinous, with all the maidens of her train, 
proceeds to wash the linen of her family. According to Pausanias, there was an an¬ 
cient picture to be seen in his time, in which this subject was represented 
