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crevice the  particular  hell  of  the  place. On the bottom and  along  the  sides  are  two  hundred  grinning mouths spurting  liquids  of  every  hue. Into this sewer of  desolation  and  dire  combustion,  midst  hissing vapor and  the  stench  of  decomposing  drugs,  vomit white blue  and  black  sulphur  springs,  boiling  alum, epsoni salts,  and  magnesia  springs ;  iron  and  soda springs; conglomerate  and  nondescript  medicated mixtures, until  the  little  rivulet,  nauseated  by  the vile compound,  turns  whejash  in  color,  emits  a  faint gurgle, tosses  feverishly  on  its  rocky  bed,  and  then slinks along  its  slimy  way. Round stinking  pools that fill  the  air  with  their  fetid  breath,  are  incrusta- tions of iron,  tartaric  acid,  copperas,  and  verdigris. The clammy  ground,  crispy  with  sulphuric  crystals, rough with  scoriae,  quakes  and  sends  forth  noxious gases. Waves of  sulphuric  seas  thump  against  the thin crust  of  the  seemingly  hollow  earth ;  jets  of liquid  black  leap  hissing  from  blue-vitriol  mud,  and  a cavernous  roar  echoes  through  the  pitchy  glen. Nature, sick  with  sore  boils,  eaten  by  acids,  palsied and jaundiced,  is  smothered  with  alopathic  abomina- tions.

Pass Proserpine's  Grotto  and  ascend  the  canon. Pick your  way  carefully  and  plant  your  feet  in  the footprints of  the  guide,  else  your  legs  may  suffer  for the neglect. First there  is  an  Iron  and  Alum  spring, with a  temperature  of  97°  Fahrenheit ;  then  the Medicated Geyser  bath,  containing  iron,  sulphur, epsora salts  and  magnesia;  Eye  Water  spring,  om- nipotent against ophthalmia ;  and  in  the  order  men- tioned Boiling Alum  and  sulphur  spring,  Black  Sul- phur spring, Epsom  Salts  spring,  Boiling  Black sulphur spring. The largest  spring  is  the  Witches' Cauldron, situated  two-thirds  of  the  distance  up  the canon, and  the  loudest  the  Steamboat  Spring  at  the head of  the  canon. The Witches'  Cauldron  is  a  hole or sink  six  or  seven  feet  in  diameter,  of  unknown depth, and  with  a  temperature  of  292°  Fah