'Transactions of the Bombay Geographical Society, from September 1850 to June 1852. Edited by the Secretary. Volume X.' [‎42] (63/458)

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PROCEEDINGS OF THE SOCIETY.
and Rain Gauges, one of which had been received direct from Government, and
two others having been returned from Aden, Government desired to be informed
of the charges likely to be incurred by their erection at Poona, Mababuleshwar,
Nuggur, or other stations, and the results that were contemplated from their
employment. It was stated in reference to this, that the instruments were
mucfy more complex, cumbrous, and expensive, than any contemplated by the
Society at the time the scheme of meteorological research was projected ; but as
they had been sent out by the Court of Directors The London-based directors of the East India Company who dealt with the daily conduct of the Company's affairs. , on the recommendation doubt
less of some high scientific authority, it would seem strange to permit them to
remain useless in store,—still more so to return them to Europe. The Society
had resolved to address Government on the subject, the instruments having been
committed to their charge, and they recommended Mahabuleshwar, Poona, and
Nuggur, for their use, as stations widely separated from each other, and as
possessed of a great diversity of climates; and as points at which it would bo
matter of very great interest to ascertain the relative forces and directions of the
winds, and the relative amount of rain at each. Though it might not have been
considered essential for such ends to provide new instruments, such as those now
in possession of Government, it would be well worth while, as they existed, to have
them set up, especially as at all the three places recommended facilities for
doing so existed which would render the experiment inexpensive.
The best mode of dealing with the matter seemed to be to refer to the Military
Board for estimates, explaining to them that the instruments were the same as
those at the Observatory, Colaba,—-that two of them had been used for years
on the roof of a couple of cadjanned huts at Aden, and that the roofs of the bar
racks at Poona, Nuggur, or the Sanitarium at Malcolm Peth, would afford every
conveniency that was desired.
The following extract of a letter from Captaiu Hazlewood, with a minute
from the President, was then read
Extract of a letter from Captain Hazlewood, commanding Rutnagherry Rangers, dated the
23d February 1850, describing some Hot Springs in the Southern Konkan.
“We were at Arowlee yesterday, where there is a very beautiful hot spring. The Brahmin*
are in the habit of bathing and washing their clothes in it; and, finding it in a very filthy
etate, we put a dozen men into it, and emptied and thoroughly cleansed it. It filled again in
the course of two hours, and the water was thten as pure as crystal. I plunged a thermometer
into it, and it rose to 105°, after being in a few minutes. The water of this spring is strongly
impregnated with sulphur'.
“We bathed in it, and enjoyed our bath amazingly. There is a wry 7 io£ spring, which is
passed coming up the Dhabool Karee, at Monje Oonaren Turuf, Haweylee, Jafferabad, in th*
Sooverndroog talooka. Distant about 400 paces from the Karee, on the left side as you com*
up, it is so hot that rice is boiled in it in a few minutes. Oonaren is two miles from the mouth
of the Dhabool Karee. There are two others at Golowlee and Raj waree villages, between
Arolee and Lungnushwur ; but they are so hot that you cannot put your hand in, without
being scalded. There is another, of the same temperature as the one at Arowlee, close to
Lungnushwur, in the middle of the river. I hear also of another m the Sooverndroog taloo
ka, at Oonowren Turuf Natoo Palwan, not so warm as the one we tried yesterday. There i*
also a hot spring at Rajapoor, which issues out of the mouth of a stone cow, and falls into a
small tank. This is of the same temperature as the Arowlee one, and much bathed in by
the natives. I can hear of none in the Malwa talooka.