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Visit to Iceland

CHAPTER V
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The stones are cast forcibly forth, and the lumps of earth, dissolved by the action of the water, impart to the latter a dingy colour.
Whoever has seen the jet of water at Carlsbad, in Bohemia, can well imagine the appearance of this spring, which closely resembles that of Carlsbad.

{38} In the immediate neighbourhood of the spring is an abyss, in which water is continually seething, but never rises into the air.

At a little distance, on a high rock, rising out of the river Sidumule, not far from the shore, are other springs.

They are three in number, each at a short distance from the next, and occupy nearly the entire upper surface of the rock.

Lower down we find a reservoir of boiling water; and at the foot of the rock, and on the nearest shore, are many more hot springs; but most of these are inconsiderable.


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