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10 the spectator, who is apt to get scalded, ere he is aware, by the falling jet.

The whole scene was indiscribably astonishing; but what interested us most, was the circumstance, that the strongest jet came last, as if the geyser had summoned all her powers in order to shew us the greatness of her energy, and make a grand finish before retiring into the subterraneous chambers in which she is concealed from mortal view. Our curiosity had been gratified, but it was far from being satisfied. We now wished to have it in our power to inspect the mechanism of this mighty engine, and obtain a view of the springs by which it is put in motion: but the wish was vain; for they lie in a tract which no fowl knoweth, and which the vulture’s eye hath not seen;—which man with all his boasted powers, cannot, and dare not approach. Such scenes exhibit only "the hiding of Jehovah’s power," It is merely the surface of his works that is visible. Their internal structure He hath involved in obscurity; and after the closest and most unwearied application, the utmost we can boast of is, that we have heard a whisper of His proceedings, and investigated the extremities of His operation.

On the morning of the 29th I was awakened at twenty-three minutes past five o’clock, to contemplate an eruption of the New Geyser, situated at the distance of an hundred and forty yards to the south of the principal fountain. It is scarcely possible, however, to give any idea of the brilliancy and grandeur of the scene which