is liable to pass it by unnoticed. In approaching from the creek 
I passed up a gradually ascending slope down which the water flows, 
covering in its meanderings more than an acre of ground and leaving, 
wherever it touches, brilliant streams of color. About a hundred 
yards from the creek I came upon the spring, the waters of which 
stand nearly on a level with the surrounding surface. Approaching 
the border I looked down into the blue mysterious depth and watched 
the large bubbles of steam slowly rising to the surface and passing 
off into the air. The larger of these bubbles would lift up a 
considerable quantity °f water sometimes to the height of 3 or 4 
feet, producing a kind of spasmodic boiling and dashing a succession 
of waves against the rim. The spring is surrounded by an irregular 
rim which stands a few inches above the general level of the water. 
The basin is 20 feet long and 10 feet wide, one end being narrower 
and partially separated from the main basin by an irregular row of 
beaded islands and projections. 
Although the spring and basin are very chaste and delicate 
in form as well as color, there are other springs more beautiful 
in those respects. But when I ascended the bank and looked down 
upon the spring and its surroundings, I concluded, without the least 
hesitation, that I had never seen anything so uniquely beautiful. 
On the upper side of the spring, next to the bank, the water in over- 
flowing ran into large shallow pools, painting whatever it touched 
with tne colors of the rainbow. Beds of rich, creamy white and 
rich yellows were interlaid with patches of siennas and purples, and 
divided up and surrounded by the most fantastic patterns of delicate 
