132 An ACCOUNT of 
{ uAvE already faid, that the ground, through which many 
of the fprings were boiling, was reduced to a clay of various 
colours. In fome, the water is quite turbid ; and, according to 
the colour of the clay through which it has paffed, is red, yel- 
low or gray. 
Tue fprings, however, from whence the water overflows 
in any great quantity, are to appearance perfectly pure. The 
moft remarkable of thefe was about fifty or fixty yards from 
our ftation, and was diftinguifhed by the people of the neigh- 
bourhood, by the name of the little Geyzer. The water of it 
boiled with a loud and rumbling noife in a well of an irregular 
form, of about fix feet in its greateft diameter ; from thence it 
burft forth into the air, and fubfided again, nearly every minute. 
The jets were dafhed into fpray as they rofe, and were from 
twenty to thirty feet high. Volumes of fteam or vapour 
afcended with them, and produced a moft magnificent effect, 
particularly if the dark hills, which almoft hung over the foun- 
tain, formed a back ground tothe picture. The jets are forced 
in rifing to take an oblique direction, by two or three large 
ftones, which lay on the edge of the bafon. Between thefe and 
the hill, the ground (to a diftance of eight or nine feet) is re- 
markably hot, and entirely bare of vegetation. If the earth 
is ftirred, a {team inftantly rifes, and in fome places it was co- 
vered with a thin coat of fulphur, or rather, I fhould fay, fome 
loofe {tones only were covered with flakes of it. In one place, 
there was a flight efflorefcence on the furface of the foil, which, 
by the tafte, feemed to be alum. 
Tue fpray fell towards the valley, and in that dire¢tion co- 
vered the ground with a thick incruftation of matter which it 
depofited. Clofe to this, and in one fpot very near the well 
itfelf, the grafs grows with great luxuriance. 
Wuere the foil was heated, it was gradually (as on the 
mounds) changing into a clay. But it was here more beautiful 
than in any other place. The colours were more varied and 
. bright, 
