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with sides from 2 to 8 feet high are formed, with the ornamented 
designs proportionately coarse, but when the water flows slowly, 
myriads of the little basins are formed, one below the other, with 
a kind of irregular system, as it might be called, which constitutes 
the difference between the works of nature and works of art. The 
water holds a great amount of lime in solution. It also contains 
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f th tely or- 
: je) ed by the dripping 
General View of Overflow jo Great Of the water over the mar gins of the 
Spring, Gaydiner’s River. asins. 
“ Liberty Cap (Fig. 71) is um- 
doubtedly,” says our author, “ the remains of an extinct geyser.” 
The water was forced up with considerable power, and probably 
without intermission, building up its own crater until the pressure 
beneath was exhausted, and then it gradually closed itself over at 
