Numbers Of Bubbles Are Constantly Rising.
The Steam Feels Acrid In The Throat, But Is Not Inflammable,
As It Did Not Burn When I Held A Bunch Of Lighted Grass Over The Bubbles.
The Mercury Rises To 158 Deg.
When the thermometer is put into the water
in the hole, but after a few seconds it stands steadily
At 160 Deg.
Even when flowing over the stones the water is too hot for the hand.
Little fish frequently leap out of the stream in the bed of which
the fountain rises, into the hot water, and get scalded to death.
We saw a frog which had performed the experiment, and was now cooked.
The stones over which the water flows are incrusted with a white salt,
and the water has a saline taste. The ground has been dug out
near the fountain by the natives, in order to extract the salt it contains.
It is situated among rocks of syenitic porphyry in broad dikes,
and gneiss tilted on edge, and having a strike to the N.E.
There are many specimens of half-formed pumice, with greenstone and lava.
Some of the sandstone strata are dislocated by a hornblende rock
and by basalt, the sandstone nearest to the basalt being converted
into quartz.
The country around, as indeed all the district lying N. and N.W. of Tete,
is hilly, and, the hills being covered with trees, the scenery
is very picturesque. The soil of the valleys is very fruitful
and well cultivated.
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