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the Earth, full as wide as my Hat crov/n, out 

 of which ifTued faft very hot Steams (like the 

 Smoak out of Chimnies,) that tinged the holes 

 all about their Edges with feemingly very fair 

 Brimftone : And to fpeak our thoughts inge- 

 nuoufly, we did not care to come nearer them 

 than fix or feven yards, leaft the ground fhould 

 prove fo hollow, as to fink in and bury us before 

 we were dead. 



26. Our firft entrance upon this uneven fpot, 

 was by crofling a little plain which was fo ful- 

 phureous that it would bear nothing but deadifh 

 coloured long Grafs or rather Weeds, with a few 

 fliort, and brittle, or rottenifh Bufhes : At laft 

 we arrived at what is vulgarly called the Devil's 

 Coppers on a hill fide ; there were two or three 

 of them, two yards afunder from each other in 

 an almoft dired line, and they were each three 

 foot in diameter 5 we had no convenience for 

 plumming them ; however they feemed not to 

 be very deep, and had but a fmall fl:ream running 

 from them, which loofes itfelf among the long 

 Grafs : the Water in them was of a mud colour, 

 and rofe to within a foot of the furface of the 

 ground, boiling fiercer than ever I faw a Sugar 

 Copper, and fending up very ftrong Clouds of 

 Steam into the Air ^ no kind of Grafs would 

 grow within twelve yards of them, the SoH 

 being wholly Sulphur, and fo exceflive hot, that 



we 



