. The polar world [microform] : a popular description of man and nature in the Arctic and Antarctic regions of the globe . Arctic races; Zoology; Races arctiques; Zoologie. T 1 1(1, piirticii- I'caiii!^ liiivi' iiiablo. ' It )' idea ol' the 'S. JIlTt' ;i issc, llit'iv rt'iim wlii( li cvt'ry sliii|M' tion picttiii', rvcrvNvlit'iv. I'cpfuliiriHtN iiiiiy a. fiiir TiiPSS; lull t ruin and ved it with tlie soutli- rrow sov'jt' )rin{^,s and Hot sI' oh' K 1,1,AM). M f'limiirnlcs, will's*' dense exlialiitions, spreading,' an intderalile sti'iii'li, issue <'iit (if the eaitli willi a liissin;^
. The polar world [microform] : a popular description of man and nature in the Arctic and Antarctic regions of the globe . Arctic races; Zoology; Races arctiques; Zoologie. T 1 1(1, piirticii- I'caiii!^ liiivi' iiiablo. ' It )' idea ol' the 'S. JIlTt' ;i issc, llit'iv rt'iim wlii( li cvt'ry sliii|M' tion picttiii', rvcrvNvlit'iv. I'cpfuliiriHtN iiiiiy a. fiiir TiiPSS; lull t ruin and ved it with tlie soutli- rrow sov'jt' )rin{^,s and Hot sI' oh' K 1,1,AM). M f'limiirnlcs, will's*' dense exlialiitions, spreading,' an intderalile sti'iii'li, issue <'iit (if the eaitli willi a liissin;^ noise und et»ni- |,|rtelv liide llie view. The ^nniid-eahlronsof l'e}lt solitary spots in the mn'th of the island, nil the horder of enormous lava-lields and of a \ast iinknowii uilileniess, exhil'it voleanie I'ower on a still more j^dj^antie Miile. Tiiere are no less than twelve of these seethin;; pits, 111! IIIImI with a disyiistin^' thi(d\ slini> ^^rey or lilack li(|uid, lioilin;,' or siiunierin;,' with greater or less vehemence, iitid riiiitfiny; denso volumes of ste;im strongly inipre;^-iiateil with sulphurous ;i[ases. Some sputter furiously, seatteriiijj^ their I'oiiteuts on every side, wdiilo in others the muddy smip iippcars too thick to l)(»il, and after remaining' (piiesceiil fur ald'Ut half a minute, rises up a few inches in the centre of the iiasin, endts a putt" of steam, and then subsides into its furniei' >t:ite. The diameter of the lar^'est of all the pits cannot he jess than tifteeii feet ; and it is a sort of mud Geysir, for at intervals a column of its bhudc li(piid contents, aceomitanied with a violent rush of steam, is thrown up to the hei^'ht of six or ei;^'ht feet. I'rofessor >Sartorius von Waltershausen, one of the few travellers who have \isited this reniarkahle spot, says that witches in Mdihilh could not possibly liav',' desired a more tittiny place for the prci'ai'ation of their infernal ^'reel than the mud-caldro
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