or six feet in length and one foot high; but
the ends of this are ragged, as if it had formerly
been continued the whole way round,
the crater, and it is therefore probably a
portion of the same wall, which Sir John
Stanley describes as nearly surrounding the
basin at the time he was there, and as being
two feet high. There is at present no basin
whatever round the edge of the pipe, as in
the Geyser, nor is the well formed by any
means with the same almost mathematical
accuracy as in that spring, but on the contrary
it is extremely irregular in its figure,
and descends in rather a sloping direction;
its surface being composed of a siliceous
crust, of a deep greyish brown color, worn
smooth by the continued friction of the
water. These two fountains likewise differ
materially in another circumstance, that no
subterraneous noises announce the coming
eruptions of the New Geyser, or accompany
it while it is playing. For several yards, in
one direction, in the neighborhood, where
the water flows off in a shallow stream, the
bed of this is composed of a thin white covering,
of a siliceous deposit. During the
eruption of the New Geyser, I could notperceive
that it in any way affected the neighboring
springs. I remarked no particular
sinking of the water in any, nor did I observe
that any boiled more violently than usual.
The Geyser, which 'was filled almost to the
rim of the basin, previously to the eruption of
the New Geyser, from which it is distant
about four hundred yards or more, remained,
as nearly as possible, in the same state of
fulness during, and after, the eruption. - Sir
John Stanley, also, observed the same circumstance,
so that in all probability their
subterraneous streams are quite independent
of each other *. We were informed by the
people living in the neighborhood,’ that in
* Horrebow, indeed, seems to lead to a contrary
conclusion, from the following observations: “ In the
parish of Huusevig, at a farm called Reykum, there are
three springs which lie about thirty fathoms from each
other. The water boils up in them in the following
manner: when the spring or well at one end has thrown
up its water, then the middle one begins, which subsiding,
that at the other end rises, and after it, the first
begins again, and so on in the same order by a continued
succession, each boiling up three times in about
a quarter of an hour.” Page 21.—Povelsen and Olafsen,
also, mention a remarkable circumstance, which proves
a communication between the two springs, called Akra