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- the bottom, and wom. the little stream which has been already men sista, 
I visited several remarkable red and white hills, which had attracted my 
4 om the: me in the morning. These are immediately upon the 
- “stream, and, _ those already mentioned, are formed by the dendettion of 
stra m the springs. On their summits, the orifices through 
“which the arr had been discharged were so large that they resembled 
miniature craters, being some of them several feet in diameter, circular, and 
regular! asify art. Ata former time, when these : dried-up | foun- 
tains were all in motion, they must have made a beautiful ear ron a 
"Baio one ms oF these hills, or dake: on its side » near the Vel 1 
these s limestone columns, about one foot in digatette at the’ ebaes ahd 
' upwards toa height of three or four feet; and on the summit the 
is boiling a bubbling over, constantly adding to the height of 
4 ay 8 rae some, the water only boils up, ho longer overflowing, 
ea he same taste as at the Steamboat spring. The observer will 
remark a ceil subsidence in the water, which formerly supplied the 
fountains, as on all the summits of the hills the springs are now dry, an 
we, found only low down — rake sides, or on the surrounding plain. 
_ A little higher up the creek rmed by strata of a very 
‘heavy and hard scoriacgous exalt having a brifgit: metallic Justre when 
Bes ‘ e mountains overlooking the plain are of an ane different 
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sr skifts the Sin I found at the foot ofa is, et and is iss 
froma — t rock of a dark-blue color, a great number of sprii s hav- 
-ing the same» tand disagreeably metallic taste already mentiobed, 
the water 3 which was _ into a very-remarkable basin, whose sin 
-gularity, perhaps, made it appear to me very beautiful. “It is large— 
perhaps fifty yards in circumference ; and in it the water is contained at 
an elevation of several feet above the surrounding ground bya wall of cd 
eareous /ufa, composed principally of the remains of mosses, three or four, 
and. sometimes ten feet high. The water within is very clear and pure, 
-and three or four feet deep, where it could be conveniently measured near 
the wall; and, ata —— lower level, is another d or basin of 
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Me in the afternoon I sat out on my -return to 
large field of a salt that was several pts dor, found. onmy 
© emigrant friends, who had beene ped in company \ with 
d their journey, and the road had ae sob its solitary 
mperature of the largest of the “aa ber Be at our ét 
seen that of the psa ner i 
