THE WORLD'S GEYSER-REGIONS. 



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seventy-five feet in diameter by twenty feet in depth that has erup- 

 tions reaching the height of fifty feet. There are other localities on 

 the same island, and in Java also are several localities, some of which 

 have mud-geysers that spout twenty or thirty feet. The springs of 

 SavU'Savu on Vanua Levu, in the Feejee Islands, o^ve pseudo geysers. 



Fig. 2.— The Eruption op the Geysers ix Iceland, as seen bt Henderson in July, 1814. 



The latter were owned by an old woman who was captured by a chief 

 in 1863, and cooked in her own springs. Miss C. F. Gordon Gumming, 

 referring to this, says : " She was past seventy, and must have been 

 very tough and smoke-dried, but as in her younger days she had 

 been a regular Joan of Arc, leading her tribe to battle, and herself 



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