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petnally vibrating with the flowing waters. Except that they were a 

 rich vegetable green, these fringes had the form and texture of the 

 finest cashmere wool. The luxuriant growth of vegetation in and 

 along the borders of these little streams was a wonder of beauty. 

 The whole view was there superior to anything of the kind I had 

 seen. In this group greatly is one cone with the top broken off, 18 

 inches high, 4 feet in diameter, with an aperature at the top 18 

 inches in diameter, in a constant state of ebullition. From the 



form of the crater 

 we Called this the 

 Bee-Hive. In the 

 lower basin there 

 are very few of the 

 raised craters, 

 but mostly coni- 

 cal, funnel-shaped 

 basins, with rims 

 of various forms. 

 The majority of 

 them are circular 

 or nearly so. All 

 around the Bee- 

 Hive for several 

 feet the surface is 

 oru am ented with 

 pearly tubercles of 

 silica, from the 

 size of a pea to 

 three inches in di- 

 ameter. The val- 

 ley is filled with 

 springs up to its 

 very source, and 

 those springs 

 which burst from 

 the mountain side 

 800 feet above the 

 sea have tempera- 

 tures respectively 

 of 160°, 175°, and 

 180° On the south 

 side of the canon, 

 flowing down the 

 almost vertical side 

 of the mountain, 

 there was a little 

 cool spring so imbedded in its bright green carpet of moss that it 

 could hardly be seen. With great difficulty we managed to climb up 

 the mountain side, and, clearing away the moss, obtained the first 

 water that we could drink for eight hours. In all of our examination 

 during the day we had not found a drop of water of sufficiently low 

 temperature to take into our mouths, though there were hundreds 

 of the most beautiful springs all around us. We were like Coleridge's 

 mariner in the great ocean, "Water, water everywhere, but not a drop 

 to drink." There is every variety of form here to the basins of the 

 springs. One is a fine boiling spring with a nearly circular rim 5 by 



