. Cook's practical guide to Algeria and Tunisia . ources. The source of the Grande Cascade has always a temperatureof about 96° Cent., equal to 205° Fahr., or nearly boilingheat, being higher than any mineral waters in Europe, orAfrica, and only equalled by the Geysers in Iceland, NewZealand, and the Philippine Islands. Dense clouds of steamrise from the falls and the surrounding earth. Clear andlimpid, the water has a strong odour of sulphuretted hydrogen,which is lost as the water cools. It then becomes quitedrinkable. One other source need only be mentioned. The Source duPont, at the foot o
. Cook's practical guide to Algeria and Tunisia . ources. The source of the Grande Cascade has always a temperatureof about 96° Cent., equal to 205° Fahr., or nearly boilingheat, being higher than any mineral waters in Europe, orAfrica, and only equalled by the Geysers in Iceland, NewZealand, and the Philippine Islands. Dense clouds of steamrise from the falls and the surrounding earth. Clear andlimpid, the water has a strong odour of sulphuretted hydrogen,which is lost as the water cools. It then becomes quitedrinkable. One other source need only be mentioned. The Source duPont, at the foot of the bridge on the Guelma road, which isferruginous, and has a different chemical composition, and isnot so hot as the water of the Grande Cascade, being only81Q Centigrade, or 178° Fahr., and is used for drinking pur-poses when cold. The composition of the waters for bathing is allied to thoseof Uriage, Aix, and Dax ; and taken as drink the water is likethat at Contrexeville. From statistics extending over 60 years carefully kept by the 250. DISTRICTS EAST OF ALGIERS. 251 military authorities, at is found that the waters of llammamMeskoutine are suitable for, and have proved highly advan-tageous in, cases of rheumatism, affections of the joints, andstrains, sciatic neuralgia, fevers, partial paralysis, chronicbronchitis, and emphysema, localised tubercles, and someskin diseases. They are unsuitable and even injurious in cases ofcongestion, especially in pulmonary tuberculosis, heart disease,and gout. When the waters overflow from the sources or from fissuresin the rock, being strongly impregnated with carbonate oflime, they produce, when cold, a white mass in the form ofCascades, presenting the appearance of petrified rapids, asseen in the accompanying illustration. In other places the water rising above the rock has depositeda circle of sediment, then a second circle, and so on, until thespring had not sufficient force to mount higher, when thewater had to find an issue e
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