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country, to be able to point out the particular 
objects that were most deserving of our attention, 
we thought it better to procure ourselves a Cice¬ 
rone to these places from among the inhabitants 
of a solitary hut at about two or three miles dis¬ 
tance ; but still we could not resist the present 
temptation of alighting from our horses, to visit 
one of the sulphur-springs that lay in our route. 
It was situated in a valley, at the foot of the 
precipice; on entering which, we crossed, with 
cautious steps, some heaps of Bolus , intermixed 
with incrustations of sulphur, and arrived at the 
edge of the fountain, where, in addition to a 
whitish and turbid water that was thrown out to 
the height of two or three feet from an aperture 
of no small dimensions, we found a muddy paste 
oozing from other orifices at various distances. 
All of these sent forth great clouds of steam, 
which, together with the sulphureous exhalation 
that was wafted about by the wind in different 
directions, frequently obliged us to shift our situ¬ 
ations. It was in endeavoring to avoid one of 
these unpleasant gusts, which threatened to annoy 
me while I was gathering some specimens of the 
mineral productions of the place, that I jumped 
up to my knees in a semiliquid mass of hot sul¬ 
phur and bolus, in which I should probably have 
sunk to a considerable depth, had I not instantly 
thrown myself with my whole length upon the 
