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growing on its banks were covered with beautiful incruftations. 
Some of thefe we wifhed to preferve, but from their extreme 
delicacy they fell into pieces on every attempt to remove them. 
Tue fituation of the new Geyzer * is in the fame line from 
the foot of the hill with the great Geyzer. Its pipe is formed 
with equal regularity, and is fix feet in diameter, and forty-fix 
feet ten inches in depth. It does not open into a bafon, but it 
is nearly furrounded by a rim or wall two feet high. After 
each eruption, the pipe is emptied, and the water returns gra- 
dually into it, as into that of the old Geyzer. During three 
hours nearly that the pipe is filling, the partial eruptions hap- 
pen feldom, and do not rife very high ; but the water boils the 
whole time, and often with great violence. The temperature 
of the waters after one of thefe eruptions, was conftantly found 
to be 212°. Few incruftations are formed round this fpring, 
excepting in the channel where the water flows from it. 
Tue great eruption is not preceded by any noife, like that 
of the great Geyzer. The water boils fuddenly, or is heaved 
over the fides of the pipe; then fubfiding a little, it burfts into 
the air with inconceivable violence. The column of water re- 
mains entire, until it reaches its extreme height, where it is 
fhivered into the fineft particles. Its direflion was perpendicu- 
lar, and greateft elevation 132 feet. Like the eruption of the 
old Geyzer, this confifted of feveral jets, fucceeding each other 
with 
* Bzrore the month of June 1789, the year I vifited Iceland, this fpring had not 
played with any great degree of violence, at leaft for a confiderable time. (Indeed the 
formation of the pipe will not allow us to fuppofe, that its eruptions had at no former 
period been violent.) But in the month of June, this quarter of Iceland had fuffered 
fome very fevere fhocks of an earthquake ; and it is not unlikely, that many of the ca- 
vities communicating with the bottom of the pipe, had been then enlarged, and new 
fources of water opened into them. The difference between the eruptions of this foun- 
tain, and thofe of the great Geyzer, may be accounted for from the circumftance of their 
being no bafon over the pipe of the firft, in which any water can be contained to inter- 
rupt the column as it rifes. I fhould here ftate, that we could not difcover any corre- 
fpondence between the eruptions of the different {prings. 
