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LEFT GEYSER 307 GHATS It has a pipe 78 feet in vertical depth, makes its way out of the rent, and the and from 8 to 10 feet in diameter, but fountain ceases to play. The second in gradually widening as it rises into the basin. The latter is 56 feet long by 46 feet broad, and is lined with an incrusta- tion of silica deposited from the hot water, the process being aided by the alkali soda, which, with minute quan- size is the Strokkur. If stones or turf be thrown down its pipe, an eruption will follow within a few minutes, and eject them with great force. Geyser ac- tion is produced by the heating of the lower part of the geyser tube. There ^^^yV^^"^ Gettysburgf Ill >:.HAY5 GIBBON <a.W£B3 ■If 2 NO CORPS ■ HALL DOU8LEDAY 1ST CORPS ♦W"!")'* RESERVE RESERVE ROUND TOP LONG STREET t « KILPATRICK BATTLE OF GCTTYSBURG titles of various salts, exists in the water. When the geyser is about to act, subterranean noises are heard like the distant firing of cannon, and the earth is slightly shaken; then a column of the liquid element is thrown up to the height of 100 or 200 feet. Steam after a time are also some remarkable geysers in New Zealand in the Northern Island. GHATS, or GHAUTS (gats), EAST- ERN and WESTERN, two converging ranges of mountains, which run parallel with the E. and W. coasts of southern