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.