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other as the Drinking Fountain. Moreover, at several points 

 on the north bar, hot water bubbles up from the soil, of such 

 a temperature that the same person who, with a hook and line 

 had caught a fish in the cold water basin, might, with the same 

 motion of his hand, let them drop into the hot adjoining spring, 

 where, in fact, it is boiled within a few minutes and fit for 

 eating I We have ourselves made this experiment, which is 

 also mentioned by Lord Macartney, and found the fish thus 

 prepared exceedingly palatable. 



At high water the whole of the hot springs become mingled 

 with the brine of the ocean, and thus indicate a temperature 

 which is barely perceptibly higher than that of the latter. 

 Adjoining the landing-place, several late visitors to the island 

 have endeavoured to perpetuate the record of their fleeting 

 presence on some compact granite blocks of rock, which are 

 scattered in the path to the hot springs. Thus, on one of 

 those stones, fast becoming obliterated by the weather, may be 

 read :— " Savouret, 1841 "-—''J. D. Rogers, 1855, Mars."~On 

 a second huge block : — ** Hte. E-ogers, 1852 to 1857 ; " and lastly, 

 these names, with difficulty decipherable, " Pallefournier-Emile, 

 Mazarni-Denoyarez, Grenoble, Canton de Sassenage, Departe- 

 ment de I'lsere, 1844." In general we found none of the 

 inscriptions on the island that can be recognized. 



On reaching the plateau above, which is reached by a narrow, 

 steep, and in many places rather fatiguing path, from the settlers* 

 huts on the north side of the basin of the crater, we came to a 

 breeding-place of the yellow-tufted " Crested or Hopping- 



