. The earth and its inhabitants .. . tasb or breenwich I76°30' |76°50- «,' '} Roto-mahana before June 10, 1886. ^—^—^^^^—.^^^_—^ 6 Miles. mineral spring of Te-Tarata, on the site of which there apjjeared a mud volcano over 500 feet lower than the level of the old lake. Before the explosion the waters falling into Roto-mahana, or the " Hot Ijake," rose in intermittent jets in a flooded crater about 650 feet in circuit and 80 feet above Roto-mahana. After filling this crater the waters overflowed its transparent, alabaster-like silicious margent, falling in thin azure sheets from basin
. The earth and its inhabitants .. . tasb or breenwich I76°30' |76°50- «,' '} Roto-mahana before June 10, 1886. ^—^—^^^^—.^^^_—^ 6 Miles. mineral spring of Te-Tarata, on the site of which there apjjeared a mud volcano over 500 feet lower than the level of the old lake. Before the explosion the waters falling into Roto-mahana, or the " Hot Ijake," rose in intermittent jets in a flooded crater about 650 feet in circuit and 80 feet above Roto-mahana. After filling this crater the waters overflowed its transparent, alabaster-like silicious margent, falling in thin azure sheets from basin to basin, all with perfectly semicircular white rims due to the regular undulation of the water circulating in uniform eddies round the cascades. As its temperature fell the water, saturated with silica and sulphurous substances, gradually changed in colour from the
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