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130 kirby’s wonderful museum.
minute and a half told the number. The gentleman, after
calculating the same by figures, said he was wrong. “ Stop
massa,” replied the black, “ you forgot the leap yearsand
on including them, the gentleman found the black was pre-
cisely right. This slave is a native of Africa, and could nei-
ther read nor write ; neither could Jedediah Buxton. The
publication of these facts seems to have an end in view, which,
however, will by no means lessen their credit, when reported
by Doctor Rush, on his own knowledge.
Ann. Reg. 1788, p. 220.
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DESCRIPTION OF THE BOILING FOUNTAINS IN ICELAND,
CALLED GEYSERS, AS GIVEN BY SIR GEORGE STEWART
MACKENZIE, BART. IN HIS TRAVELS IN ICELAND.
These celebrated fountains are about sixteen miles to the
north of Skalholt. The hill does not exceed three hundred
feet in height, and is separated from the mountain towards the
west, by a narrow stripe of flat boggy ground. Crossing this
bog, and a small river which runs through it, at the east end
of the hill, the most wonderful and awful effects of subter-
raneous heat are exhibited.
There are several banks of clay, from some of which
steam arises in different places; and in others there are ca-
vities in which water boils briskly. In a few of these cavi-
ties the water, by being mixed with clay, is thick, and varies
in colour; but it is chiefly red and grey. Below these banks
is a gentle and uniform slope, composed of matter which, at
some distant period, has been deposited by springs that no
longer exist. The strata, or beds thus formed, seemed to
have been broken by the shocks of earthquakes, particularly
near the great Geyser. Within a space not exceeding a
quarter of a mile, there are numerous orifices in the old in-
crustations, from which boiling water and steam issue, with
minute and a half told the number. The gentleman, after
calculating the same by figures, said he was wrong. “ Stop
massa,” replied the black, “ you forgot the leap yearsand
on including them, the gentleman found the black was pre-
cisely right. This slave is a native of Africa, and could nei-
ther read nor write ; neither could Jedediah Buxton. The
publication of these facts seems to have an end in view, which,
however, will by no means lessen their credit, when reported
by Doctor Rush, on his own knowledge.
Ann. Reg. 1788, p. 220.
✓/^//////
DESCRIPTION OF THE BOILING FOUNTAINS IN ICELAND,
CALLED GEYSERS, AS GIVEN BY SIR GEORGE STEWART
MACKENZIE, BART. IN HIS TRAVELS IN ICELAND.
These celebrated fountains are about sixteen miles to the
north of Skalholt. The hill does not exceed three hundred
feet in height, and is separated from the mountain towards the
west, by a narrow stripe of flat boggy ground. Crossing this
bog, and a small river which runs through it, at the east end
of the hill, the most wonderful and awful effects of subter-
raneous heat are exhibited.
There are several banks of clay, from some of which
steam arises in different places; and in others there are ca-
vities in which water boils briskly. In a few of these cavi-
ties the water, by being mixed with clay, is thick, and varies
in colour; but it is chiefly red and grey. Below these banks
is a gentle and uniform slope, composed of matter which, at
some distant period, has been deposited by springs that no
longer exist. The strata, or beds thus formed, seemed to
have been broken by the shocks of earthquakes, particularly
near the great Geyser. Within a space not exceeding a
quarter of a mile, there are numerous orifices in the old in-
crustations, from which boiling water and steam issue, with