46 plop, plopping, roaring, choking, and rumbling continually. The edge, however, should be approached with great caution, for its eruptions occur without any warning. In the early morning, like the whiz of a rocket, a jet of water, many feet in thickness, spouted up in a single column, to the height of 80 or 100 feet, straight as the trunk of a palm tree, but spreading out at the top. Bending gracefully down all round, it fell surrounded by clouds of steam and spray. The eruption lasted for several minutes, then subsided and began again. No description could give any idea of its most striking features, its vitality and its hidden power, but these, com- bined with its beauty, made one feel something of the stupendous energy of Nature’s slightest move- ment. It would be impossible to describe the many springs we visited, some boil and toss, down deep pits, whilst others boil furiously near the surface. Others, again, make a perpetual dull thudding noise below the ground, or look quiet and limpid in fairy-like arches or caverns. Some consist of red, blue or white mud, boiling and spluttering violently, and the beauty of one has been said to “ rival tbe beauty of Aladdin’s Cave but it is dangerous to approach too near, as the earth overhangs the water and is hollow under neath. A plunge into waters of about 200 degrees would be paying rather too dearly for the con- templation of its beauty. We gathered some charming petrified leaves from its margin, but when we unpacked them, like enchanted money, they were dust. To sum up, we may quote Burton, who, speaking of this entrancing spot, says—“ Here we may still study the seven forms of Geyser life. First is the baby sleeping in the the bosom of Mother Earth, the airy wreath escaping from the hot clay ground ; then comes the infant breathing strongly, and at times puking in the nurse’s lap; third is the child simmering with impatience ; and fourth is the youth, whose occupation is to boil over. The full-grown man is represented by the “Great gusher” in the plentitude of his lusty power; old age by the tranquil sleepy “ lavg ” ; and second childhood and death, mostly from diptheria or quinsy, in the empty red pits strewn about the dwarf plain.” When ready once more to mount, one does not experience any difficulty in finding the horses, for

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