sent eee ae and it was not, there: 
fore, taken into consideration. ‘ 
“Jn the afternoon I wasdered about among \ 
hich the ’ 
Mr. Preuss and se 
d we observation, and were so well | the cedars 
satisfied with its correctness, that w ng 
not it pleasant to ¢ ontinue the 
ment, as the sensation of giddiness which i 
produe ced — — strong and decide 
agon, wit 
A huge em 4 a large and 
pak eran ‘amily, had overtaken us and 
halte ted t on at our encampme nd,/s 
, 
e open grounds are cov- 
— Meas an py scences, and there 
are ber of regularly-shaped and very 
remarkable hills, Ftp ormed of a 
cession of con strata “ied ate been 
Seas sited by ee waters ns extinct spring? 
the orifices o e found o 
en up, 0 hom I asked to | summits, some ra them davind the rth ot 
and smell the gas, desirous to | funnel-shaped con Othe hese 
satisfy myself further of its effects. But | markably-shaped hills re of a red-colored 
hi ural caution n awakened by ae entirely bare, and com prinei- 
the singular and suspicious features of the of carbonate of lime, with oxide of 
place, and he declined my proposal decided- | iron, formed in the ner. Walking 
ly, and with a few indistinct remarks ab ear one of them, on the summ which 
. dir ag whom he seemed to consider the hate at were dry, 7 at ee n was at- 
Th less m — and the around 
pay « of the ‘fountain, the red roc 
trees near, make this a fe se: 
A short distance above the soprings 8 
near the foot of the same ery re 
ructure, 
e and o 
pehieds 4 is rere 8 a fossil coral. The rocky 
bank 
under 
e ed I cele repestedly, reir T found e 
ich and, 
ving thes oe ea ‘ak. et set a hidden 
ames which was boiling up from below, 
with the same e metallic taste as 
re and — 
“Spring and our sere rome" alo: 
dispersed the r from the hi 
‘posed 
‘with the remains of moss 
-grasses, which is eitakied the devi 
Beer or Soda springs, which 
to this locality, agree- 
‘able, but less highly flavored than the B 
ing springs at the foot of Pike’s an which 
same c 
vee is | 
of strata ofa caleareous tufa, | ti 
reed-like | cessi 
ts, orifices 
a velo totkaeel were 
“nt itiay ie miniature crat shes: being 
eral fe 
in di 
b 
are of the ter. They are very | @ former time, when these dried-up foun- 
rous, half hidden by tufts of , | tains were all in ion, they must 
which we am ourselves in removing | made a beautiful display on a | scale; 
and searching about for more Regi yeam preg- -and nearly all this appears to me to 
mated springs. are have been formed under their action, and 
deep, and of various eae gael mes seve- | d be ealled the place of. ns. A 
ral yards in di r, and kept in constant | the foot of one of these hills, or rather on its 
Motion by columns of myn ie gas. By | side the , oP se S 
analysis, one quart of water contains as | small limestone columns, about one foot in 
follows: — eter base, and tapering upwards 
is to a height of three or four feet ; gether 
Sulphate of magnesia =. . . ~ 12.10) summit the water is boiling 
Sulphate of lime " "> | 2.12 | over, constantly adding to the height oe the 
Carbonate of lime oe 3.86 | little obelisks. In some, the only 
Carbonate of magnesia. . - 3.22 | boils up, no longer overflowing, and has here 
Chloride of calcium Ae 1.33 | the taste as . the Steamboat K 
Chloride of Magnesium . 1.12 | The observer ° emark a gradual subsi- 
Chloride of sodiam : .  2.24| dence in the pes whisk formerly: lat 
egetable extractive matter, c. 0.85-| the fountains all the summits of 
26.84 | 
i gece ea sis einen eaten 
she water had mainly eseaped before it was 
