i 3 2 An ACCOUNT of 



I have already faid, that the ground, through which many 

 of the fprings were boiling, was reduced to a clay of various 

 colours. In fome, the water is quite turbid ; and, according to 

 the colour of the clay through which it has patted, is red, yel- 

 low or gray. 



The fprings, however, from whence the water overflows 

 in any great quantity, are to appearance perfectly pure. The 

 moft remarkable of thefe was about fifty or fixty yards from 

 our Hation, and was diftinguiftied by the people of the neigh- 

 bourhood, by the name of the little Geyzer. The water of it 

 boiled with a loud and rumbling noife in a well of an irregular 

 form, of about fix feet in its greater! diameter ; from thence it 

 burft forth into the air, and fubfided again, nearly every minute. 

 The jets were dafhed into fpray as they rofe, and were from 

 twenty to thirty feet high. Volumes of fleam or vapour 

 afcended with them, and produced a moft magnificent effect, 

 particularly if the dark hills, which almoft hung over the foun- 

 tain, formed a back ground to the picture. The jets are forced 

 in rifing to take an oblique direction, by two or three large 

 (tones, which lay on the edge of the bafon. Between thefe and 

 the hill, the ground (to a diftance of eight or nine feet) is re- 

 markably hot, and entirely bare of vegetation. If the earth 

 is ftirred, a (team inftantly rifes, and in fome places it was co- 

 vered with a thin coat of fulphur, or rather, I fhould fay, fome 

 loofe (tones only were covered with flakes of it. In one place, 

 there was a (light efflorefcence on the furface of the foil, which, 

 by the tafte, feemed to be alum. 



The fpray fell towards the valley, and in that direction co- 

 vered the ground with a thick incruftation of matter which it 

 depofited. Clofe to this, and in one fpot very near the well 

 itfelf, the grafs grows with great luxuriance. 



Where the foil was heated, it was gradually (as on the 

 mounds) changing into a clay. But it was here more beautiful 

 than in any other place. The colours were more varied and 



bright, 



