JTORTH AMERICA. 
piQOUs intercourfe performing their evolutions ; 
there are no figns of enmity, no attempt to devour 
«ach other ; the different bands feem peaceably and 
complaifantly to move a little afide, as it were to 
make room for others ,to pafs by. 
But behold yet fomething far more admirable, 
fee whole armies defcending into an abyfs, into the 
mouth of the bubbling fountain : they difappear ! are 
they gone for ever ? is it real ? I raife my eyes with 
terror and aftonifhment ; I look down again to 
the fountain with anxiety, when behold them as it 
were emerging from the blue ether of another world, 
apparently at a vaft diftanee ; at their fir ft appear- 
ance, no bigger than flies or minnows ; now gra- 
dually enlarging, their brilliant colours begin to 
paint the fluid. 
Now they come forward rapidly, and inftantly 
emerge, with the elaftic expanding column of crys- 
talline waters, into the circular baibn or funnel : fee 
now how gently they rife, fome upright, others ob- 
liquely, or feem to lie as it were on their fides, fuf- 
fering themfelves to be gently lifted or borne up by 
the expanding fluid towards the furface, failing or 
floating like butterflies in the cerulean ether ; then 
again they as gently defcend, diverge and move off; 
when they raliy ? form again, and rejoin their kin- 
dred tribes. 
This amazing and delightful fcene, though real, 
appears at fir ft' but: as a piece of excellent paint- 
ing ; there feems no medium ; you imagine the 
pi&ure tp be within a few inches of your eyes, and 
that you may without the laft difficulty touch any 
one of the fiih, or put your finger upon the croco- 
dile's eye, when it really is twenty or thirty feet 
under water, 
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