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was so rapid as to make it disagreeable to look
down at the water as it flowed past.
Continuing our route through the plain, and
doubling the point of the ridge of hills on our left,
which here trended a little to the northward, we
observed several volumes of light smoke or steam,
at a short distance, rising out of the surface of the
ground at the farthest extremity of a gently rising
plain. By these ebullitions we were apprised that
we were not now far from the object of our journey,
and that they could only proceed from the plain
of the Geysers; and so it turned out to be the case.
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