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where. These are boihng springs that overflow 

 constantly, and, as the water runs, here it builds 

 a dam and there an obstruction that forces it here 

 and there. The water of the springs is wonder- 

 fully transparent, bluer than sea water, with that 

 peculiar, lifelike, pulsating motion that distin- 

 guishes the thermal springs. 



You can look far down through the boiling 

 water and see the tiniest ornament with which the 

 spring has bedecked itself. Cleopatra's Spring is 

 particularly noted for the beauty of its waters, 

 though Pulpit Terrace is the most remarkable for 

 its regularity, hanging to the side of a hill in a real 

 and not a fancied resemblance to a great stone 

 pulpit. 



In front of the hotel is a stone, forty feet 

 high — Liberty Cap (for that is nearly its shape) — 

 that is the cone of an extinct spring. 



The ground has washed away from it and left 

 the spring standing. 



Cupid's Grotto is a fine example of this cal- 

 careous working, and the Devil's Kitchen is inter- 

 esting, as it is the crater of an excellent spring 



