And in many places there are fountains, some of which are good for drinking, and
 have a vinous flavour; as for instance, one in Paphlagonia, which they say the
 natives come to for the express purpose of drinking. Some, again, are salt, with
 a rather bitter flavour; as some among the Sicani in
 Sicily. And in the Carthaginian dominions there is a fountain on which there is
 something which floats resembling oil, but darker in colour, which they skim off
 and make into balls, and use for their sheep and cattle; and in other districts,
 too, there are fountains of a greasy nature,—like the one in Asia concerning which
 Alexander wrote a letter, saying that he had found a fountain of oil. And of
 waters which are warm by nature some are sweet, as that at Aegee in Cilicia, and
 that at Pagasæ, and that at Larissa in the Troas, and that near Magnesia, and that
 in Melos, and that in Lipara, and that in Prusa,—the Prusa, I mean, near Mount
 Olympus in Mysia,—which is called the Royal fountain. But that in Asia near
 Tralles, and those near the river Characometes, and near the city of Mysia, are so
 oily that those who bathe in them have no need of oil. And there is a similar
 fountain in the village of Dascylum. There is also one at Carura of an exceeding
 dryness and heat: and there is another near Menoscome, which is a village in
 Phrygia, of a rougher and a more nitrous quality; as there is too in a village in
 Phrygia, called The Lion's Village. And there is a spring near Dorylæum, which is
 very delicious to drink; but those which are at Baiæ or Baium, a harbour in Italy,
 are utterly undrinkable.