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 water, whoe virtues are extolled for the cure of many diorders; in ome places the water is o very hot, as to boil an egg, &c. in les time than boiling water, and this heat is retained at ome ditance from its ource.

Thee ulphureous mountains are certainly among the mot wonderful phænomena of nature, and command our atonihment and admiration. To ee vat traces of land on fire, whoe moke, like clouds, tretches far around; brimtone in flames, like treams of water iuing from the ides of precipices; in the vallies large holes full of bituminous matter, boiling and bubbling like a caldron; the earth trembling under the tread, and burting out with loud exploions, are objects truly terrific to the beholders; who, on the pot, are truck with awe and admiration, on viewing uch dreadful works of the mighty