J’lie of the smoke, and found it to stink 
of a gun barrel. — As the bubbles burst, 
Oc;,T ■ ® oiud out from tire centre, with a pretty loud 
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by the falling of the mud cn that which 
3ud of which the plain is composed. It was 
tVQ 1^^'gerous to approach the large bubbles, as the 
V ^ <]uagnfire, except where the surface of tire 
®‘^onie hardened by the sun; — upon this, we 
bnk)^^'^''ously to within fifty yards of one of the 
for or mud-pudding, as it might properly be 
''C'^Ut consistency of custard-pudding, and 
r “ondred yards in diameter : — here and there, 
vVa ,°"‘ ■ ■ ■ ■ 
, '''all- 
ot 
r.ccidentally rested on a spot not sufficiently 
f^ear, it sunk — to the no small distress of 
• of ^ bubble, (the plain was full 
tie 'v^orent sizes,) and observed it attentively for 
'' h ^PPo^ted to heave and swell, and, when the 
i^ftli raised it to some height, it burst, and the 
V>. T - ->/ — 
Vr ^ir ^PPo^ted to heave and swell, and, when the 
w ^od burst another bubble, and this con- 
,%8, “‘tervals 
f] 
otvn in concentric circles ; in which state it re- 
a sufficient quantity of air again formed 
of from about lialf a minute to two 
other parts of the pudding round the large 
Were occasionally small quantities of sand 
VI fh® height of twenty or thirty feet, 
\ '''3s ®d ■ 
- ot smoke ffiis was in parts where the 
stiff a consistency to rise in bubbles. 
'Vat ^ places we came near was cold. 
«l, ''5ti(>.,. whicii drains fi-om the mud is collected by 
^■'d, being exposed in the hollows of split 
''ays of the sun, deposits crystals of salt, 
t 0 rcsei'ved exclusively for the use of the 
Pa dry weather it yields thirty dudgius of 
yS 
His 
.Hfi 
'■I'lir 
each. 
'.Jii 
Hss 
, "'® '■ode two and a half paals to a place 
i SNs t, flam am, to view a salt lake, a mud hillock, 
^’'iiig about half a mile in circumference, of a 
^‘or, boiling up all over in gurgling eddies 
every month, but, in wet or cloudy 
