k ? Honis. Min,
1 3 45
NS Hours. Mill.
£
3
4
56
3o
o
o
o
47r
504
53^
55
57l
7 4 0
8 4 3 .
9 0 5I
10 0 84
11 0
12 0 14
The opening through which this
water iiTued was not fo wide as the
other ; we imagined it poffible to ftop
up the hole entirely by throwing large
ftones into it ; and even flattered ourfelves
that our attempt had fucceeded,
but, to our great aftonifliment, the
water gullied forth in a very violent
manner; this (hews how little the
weak efforts of man avail, when they
endeavour to proferibe bounds to the
works o f nature. We haftened to the
pipe, and found all the ilones thrown
aiide, and the water playing freely
through its former channel.
In thefe large fprings the waters
were hot in the higheil degree, and
tailed a little o f iulphnr, but in other
refp'efls were pure and clear. In the
fmaller fprings in the neighbourhood
S the
the water was tainted; in fome it was
as muddy as that o f a clay-pit, in
others as white as milk ; and yet there
are a few fprings where the water
forces itfelf through a fire underneath
as red as blood.
I have already obferved, that near
moil o f thefe fprings and hvers there
are baths, and are frequently vifited
by the natives : there are alfo in many
places dry and fweating-baths. Eg gert
Olafsen mentions one o f thefe
baths at Huufevik, in North Iceland ;
and I had the curioiity o f feeing one
of them at Thibfaarholt, not far from
Skallholt, it confiiled o f a hut raifed
o f earth, into which hot fleams aroie
from many holes. Fahrenheit’s thermometer,
which was at 57 degrees in
the open air, rofe to 9 3 in the hut
whilft it was open, and when it was
placed in one o f the little openings
the fteam arofe to 125.
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