with the opening for water flow on the east or 
lake side. The basin in which the water stands 
is about 9 feet in diameter, the rim being 
roughly hexagonal in shape- -the result of an 
artificial enclosure of small pine logs which 
have been placed thus by visitors perhaps a year 
since. These logs are entirely covered by a 
silicious deposit of yellowish color and most 
beautifully beaded, although half buried in the 
deposit and covered to the thickness of an inch or 
more. The positions and shapes of the logs can * 
be easily traced, the broken limbs and knots 
appearing as great nodes and hummocks of beauti- 
fully crystaline brown sugar. Other lesser- 
branches of trees can he traced over the „ 
covered area and I am led to suspect that there 
was an attempt made by the supposed visitors 
to place them in the form of a star about the 
basin. If this could be done, the effect though 
probably too artificial to please critics would have 
produced a most pleasing result. The basin rim 
thur surrounded by this curious sugar coated 
frame work suggested the name Rustic which was 
for the time given it. 
The formations about and outside of the 
rustic rim are very like those of other geysers 
