ater no longer overflowed, the caldron and basin
remained filled, and I returned to my tent disappointed in every way.
This phenomenon was repeated every two hours and a half, or, at the
latest, every three hours and a half. I saw and heard nothing else all
night, the next day, or the second night. I waited in vain for an
eruption.

When I had accustomed myself to these temporary effusions of my
neighbour, I either indulged in a gentle slumber in the intermediate
time, or I visited the other springs and explored. I wished to discover
the boiling vapour and the coloured springs which many travellers assert
they have seen here.

All the hot-springs are united with a circumference of 800 to 900 paces:
several of them are very remarkable, but the majority insignificant.

They are situated in the angle of an immense valley at the foot of a
hill, behind which extends a chain of mountains. The valley is entirely
covered with grass, and the vegetation only decreases a little in the
immediate vicinity of the springs. Cottages are built every where in the
neighbourhood; the nearest to the springs are only about 700 to 800 paces
distant.

I counted twelve large basins with boiling and gushing springs; of
smaller ones there were many more.

Among the gushing springs the Strokker is the most remarkable. It boils
and bubbles with most extraordinary violence at a depth of about twenty
feet, shoots up suddenly, and projects its waters into the air. Its
eruptions sometimes last half an hour, and the column occasionally
ascends to a height of forty feet. I witnessed several of its eruptions;
but unfortunately not one of the largest. The highest I saw could not
have been above thirty feet, and did not last more than a quarter of an
hour. The Strokker is the only spring, except the Geyser, which has to
be approached with great caution. The eruptions sometimes succeed each
other quickly, and sometimes cease for a few hours, and are not preceded
by any sign. Another spring spouts constantly, but never higher than
three to four feet. A third one lies about four or five feet deep, in a
rather broad basin, and produces only a few little bubbles. But this
calmness is deceptive: it seldom lasts more than half a minute, rarely
two or three minutes; then the spring begins to bubble, to boil, and to
wave and spout to a height of two or three feet; without, however,
reaching the level of the basin. In some springs I heard boiling