At length every thing was ready, and the pastor himself was kind enough to be my guide.
We rode about four miles through this beautiful vale, and in this short distance were compelled at least six times to cross the river Sidumule, which rolls its most tortuous course through the entire valley.

At length the first spring was reached; it emerges from a rock about six feet in height, standing in the midst of a moor.

The upper cavity of the natural reservoir, in which the water continually boils and seethes, is between two and three feet in diameter.

This spring never stops; the jet of water rises two, and sometimes even four feet high, and is about eighteen inches thick.

It is possible to increase the volume of the jet for a few seconds, by throwing large stones or lumps of earth into the opening, and thus stirring up the spring.