154 J. Wyman on living organisms in heated water. 
small snake and a frog which were not only dead but boiled”* 
e Procé, who has examined the same springs with care 
rae that the waters where the fish were actually found did not 
ceed 36° C. (or 96°8° F.)* Prof. James D. Dana, one of the 
piduoaions of the U. S. Exploring Expedition also visited them; 
no mention of animal life, but gives the important 
observation “ that the stones were covered with a white incrust- 
ation which appears to be silicoeus, and a species of feathery 
vegetation occurs also ae those bordering the streamlets where 
“ the temperature is 160° F., and presenting various shades of 
4 green and white.+” ah 
= Hot springs J the Ouachita. —These are situated in Hot-spring re | 
Saaees water than the green; both a pear in luxuriant strata, 
wherever the temperature has cooled down to 168° F., and as low 
as 90°.” § 
The hot springs of Pugha, in Thibet reach the temperature of 
174° F., “ey yb eo and Oscillatorie were found growing 12 
them by Capt. eueven I 
Hot springs of Mariara and La Trinchera,—Humboldt bas 
given. the saat of sae own carefully made epost on the 
waters of South America, among the most remarkavlé 
of which are those of Mariara and La 5 ep ote and of these 
the latter is the hottest. Of La Trinchera he says, “We wel? 
* 
Mimosas with slender pinnate leaves, Guna and fig trees hate 
pushed their roots into the bottom of a pool, the temperature of 
which was 85° ©. (185° F.), and the ranches of these trees 
extend over the surface of the water at two or three inches dis 
tant. te pare wit th a woody stem, and with large sagittate 
leaves, 1 very middle of the pool, the temperature of 
sehiok ena. 708 < (158° F.) Plants of the same apeaich veg 
and Dr. Fisher. ‘onion 1382 peta on Life, Translated by Dr. Hodghi 
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