where they hah some strange experiences. Savage and Bottler 
were out together. Bottler hilled a she hear and two cubs. 
It is hardly worth while to attempt to describe the TT Springs ” 
one of the greatest wonders of the world. The wonderful 
beauty of form and color displayed cannot be described, painted 
or even recalled by one who has visited them, 
July Twenty-seventh: When breakfast was over I started 
out with the Doctor across the hills to the head of the Springs 
half a mile away - I led the Doctor through a bad road, but he 
was busy talking and we reached the glen spring in good spirits. 
In passing through the pines, we were surprised by hearing a 
strange sound. I thought at first that it was a mountain 
squirrel, afterwards that it was a sort of guttural blubbering. 
Suddenly we came upon a large hot spring mound and from various 
conical craters, the steam and water were issuing - some fizz- 
ing - some blubbering - some spouting. Prom one opening in 
the top of the mound, the water was thrown for some three or 
four feet. As the water flowed down the irregular sides of 
the mound, the various materials in solution were deposited 
leaving many varied forms and fantastic colors. After making 
a sketch we hurried on among vast ruins where walls and mounds 
had been built up and left to decay. Among these were still 
a few springs eking out a sickly existence, but we had to pass 
over many acres of ruins before v/e came to the active springs 
proper. After a while the Doctor left me and I went on with 
my drawing, attempting some coloring, but found it very difficult 
