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 severj^l localities, some of which 

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

 Savu-Savu on Yanua Levu, in the Feejee Islands, dixa pseudo geysers. 



Fid. 2.— The Eruption op the Geysers ik Iceland, as seen by 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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