Volume 1
Travels to discover the source of the Nile, in the years 1768, 1769, 1770, 1771, 1772 and 1773 / [James Bruce].
- James Bruce
- Date:
- 1790
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Travels to discover the source of the Nile, in the years 1768, 1769, 1770, 1771, 1772 and 1773 / [James Bruce]. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![gant remains here, but in this I was difappointed ; I found’ nothing remarkable but the baths of very warm water * without the town ; in thefe there was a: number of fith,., above four inches in length, not unltke gudgeons.. Upon trying the heat by the thermometer, I remember to have’ been much furprifed that they could have exifted, or even not been boiled, by continuing long in the heat of this medium. . As I marked the degrees with a pencil whileI was myfelf naked in the water, the leaf was wetted accidentally, fo that F miffed the precife degree‘I meant to have recorded, and do= not pretend to fupply it from: memory... The bath is at the: head of the fountain,.and the ftream runs off to a confider-- . able diftance. I think-there were about five or fix dozen of © thefe fifh in the pool.. I was told hkewife, that they went. down into the ftream to a certain diftance in the day, and: returned. to the pool, or warmeft.and deepeft water, at night... 7 From. Feriana I proceedédS. E:to Gafsa, the ancient Capfat, and thence ‘to Tozer, formerly. Tifurus |]... I then turned» nearly N.. E. andentered a large lake. of water called the~ Lake of Marks, becaufe in the paflage of it there is a row of large trunks of palm-trees fet up to guide travellers in. the road which crofles it. . Doctor Shaw has fettled very difiinGly: the geography of this place, and thofe about: it. It is the Palus Tritonidis t+, as he juftly obferves ; this: was the moft. barren and.unpleafant part of -my-journey: UA - * This fountain is called El Tarmid. Nub. Geog. p. 86. } Sal Bell..§ 94.. fi-Itin. Anton, p. 4. t Shaw’s Travels, cap.v- -p..126,5.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b33519031_0001_0052.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
