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15 this, it gradually sunk into the pipe, as it done the year before, and I did not expect  see another eruption till the following. However, about five o’clock in the, after a great quantity of the largest stones could be found about the place had been into the spring, I observed it begin to with more violence than usual; and, the brink of the crater, I had scarcely to look down to the surface of the water, was greatly agitated, when the eruption , and the boiling water rushed up in moment, within an inch or two of my face, and its course with inconsiderable velocity the atmosphere. Having made a speedy , I now took my station on the windward , and was astonished to observe the of the jets, some of them rising higher two hundred feet; many of the fragments thrown much higher, and some of size were raised to an invisible height. For time, every succeeding jet seemed to  the preceding, till, the quantity of water in  subterraneous caverns being spent, they gave  to the column of steam, which continued rush up with a deafening roar for nearly hour.

The periodical evacuation of Strockr, having deranged by this violent experiment, no  whatever of a fresh eruption appeared  following morning. As I wished, however, see it play once more before I bid an  farewell to these wonders of nature, and,