DESCRIPTIVE SKETCH OF NEW ZEALAND. 



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"The Prince of Wales's Feathers," an intermittent fountain which throws its aqueous plumes 

 to a height of twenty-five feet, and to a distance of fifty feet on either side ; Korowhiti, 

 or " The Whistler," a small water-spout which issues from a fissure of black rock with 

 the, sound of a whistle; "The Boilers," an ebullient rock-bound pool, seized with irregular 

 spasms which expend their energy in the propulsion of a column of water to a height 

 of six or eight feet; "The Funnel," a triangular fissure in the rock continually spouting 

 steam, and occasionally geysers as well ; " The Eagle's Nest," a symmetrical geyser-cone 

 built up of long sticks like an eagle's eyrie and cemented with snow-white sinter, from 





tAWEKA AFTER THE ERUPTION. 



whose midst a feathery 

 geyser plays intermittent- 

 ly; the "Old Terrace," a 

 payed plateau partially 

 overgrown and decom- 

 posed ; a congeries of 

 white and gray mud vol- 

 canoes, some steaming 

 and others seething ; the 

 " White Springs," two 



large basins and a small lake of boiling milk-like water holding white-clay in solution; "The 

 Donkey Engine," a small mound busily puffing steam with a regular pulsation ; the " Red 

 Terrace Cascade," a parti-coloured terrace about fifteen feet wide, over which the waters 

 from a neighbouring geyser ripple and leap in charming little cascades ; the " Black Geyser," 

 a circular black basin, eight feet in diameter, filled with clear hot water from an intermittent 

 geyser, and its bottom heaped with smooth black stones ; Pirorirori, or the Blue Lake, 

 a long lake with steep banks and of ovoid form, its name derived from the pale-blue 

 hue of the water imparted by the clay which it holds in solution ; Te Kiriohinekai, or 



