In the sides of the mountain Amhan, already mentioned, good specimens of these water-worn orifices still exist, and are inhabited by swarms of bees, whose hives are quite protected from robbers by the hardness of the basaltic rocks.

The points on which the streams of water fell are hollowed by its action, and the space around which the water splashed is covered by calcareous tufa, deposited there by the evaporation of the sun.
Another good specimen of the ancient fountains is in a cave near Kolobeng, called "_Lepelole_," a word by which the natives there sometimes designate the sea.

The wearing power of the primeval waters is here easily traced in two branches--the upper or more ancient ending in the characteristic oval orifice, in which I deposited a Father Mathew's leaden temperance token: the lower branch is much the largest, as that by which the greatest amount of water flowed for a much longer period than the other.

The cave Lepelole was believed to be haunted, and no one dared to enter till I explored it as a relief from more serious labour.
The entrance is some eight or more feet high, and five or six wide, in reddish grey sandstone rock, containing in its substance banks of well rounded shingle.

The whole range, with many of the adjacent hills on the south, bear evidence of the scorching to which the contiguity of the lava subjected them.