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PLACES OF INTEREST
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NAZARDEV.
Nazardev (Chopda Taluka), in forest land about eight miles north of Chopda, has a hot spring. Rising apparently in the bed of the Gavli, the water used to flow through the head of a cow, fixed in the side of a six feet square cistern that dates from pre-Musalman or Gavli Raj times. Now the water trickles from a cleft in the rock, a little to the side of this cistern. The cistern is empty, and the spring has lost its virtue. Thermometer readings mark a temperature of 100° at sunrise and 103° at noon. Colourless and earthy in taste, analysis has failed to trace in the water any medicinal properties. [The details in grains to the gallon are: total solids by evaporation, 21.6; organic matter, 3.2; silica and iron, 8.4; lime, none; chloride of sodium, 8; sulphates, 2; nitrates, a trace; nitrites., none; hardness, i.75; list of archaeological remains, 17.]
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