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and sunk about two feet in the aperture; at other 
times it ejected with great noise a turbid and 
blackish liquid to the height of from five to seven 
feet. At all times clouds of steam, strongly im¬ 
pregnated with sulphureous exhalations, were 
issuing from the aperture, but during an erup¬ 
tion of the waters the quantity of both was 
very considerably augmented. The view of this 
spring, from a little lower down the mountain, 
together with the surrounding scenery, had an 
effect the most extraordinary that can be con¬ 
ceived. From the dark colored and elevated 
margin of the fountain extended for a great way 
in every direction the yellow crust of crystal!zed 
sulphur, raised into a gently swelling hillock by 
the soft bolus of unmeasurable depth beneath; 
and from the centre of this trembling mass a cra¬ 
ter was vomiting forth, with a tremendously roar¬ 
ing noise, to the height of four or five feet, a thick 
blackish liquid, accompanied by vast bodies of 
steam, which now ascended perpendicularly, and 
now were driven down the sides of the hill by 
the frequent eddying gusts of wind which issued 
from the chasms that abounded in the neighbour¬ 
hood. A back ground, worthy of such a picture, 
was supplied by the dark and rugged sides of the 
mountain that, extending all around, formed a 
chain of rocks, which, in addition to the rude¬ 
ness of their figure were the most barren that can 
