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13 the horizon around us; and the sun, though in full splendour, was completely eclipsed; the points of the jets, receiving his rays as rose through the vapour, wore the most charming lustre, being white and glistening as. The instant all was over, Mr Hodgson I repaired to the foot of a small cataract,  the northern base of the mound, over which  streamlet is precipitated in its way down to  river, and had a pleasant bath in the warm  as it fell upon us from the rock above.

A small preliminary eruption again took at seventeen minutes past one, and another  minutes before two. The basin continued filling, till within three minutes of three, when, a number of very loud reports, the water, and the spouts rose with a noise and  which I can compare to nothing more than to those of a quantity of large rockets off from the same source. This eruption the longest of any we saw: a space of minutes and ten seconds elapsing from the propulsion of the water from the basin, till again subsided into the pipe. The jets were much higher than in any of the former, yet none of them exceeded an hundred feet.

The most enrapturing scene, however, that beheld, was exhibited on the morning of the. About ten minutes past five, we were by the roaring of Strockr, which blew up  great quantity of steam; and when my watch  at a full quarter, a crash took place as if  earth had burst, which was instantaneously