Show aih nb in a liot sprine slicing A correspondent of the scientific american writing from elko nevada sa says J a that there is a hot spring there in which numbers offish cau CAO be seen swimming about though the water is lio eo hot that eggs are arc cooked in it io in loss than three sc condi the explanation of this phenomenon is that the hot lot springs rise in the banks banka of a stream stream the water rater of winch i intensely Oten Cly cold this tb is cold writer water runs on the bottom without mixing much with the be hot water and the fish avoid cooking by keeping in the bottom layer the correspondent gayb a teat of the water above the hot springs allowed a mean temperature of 12 fastening my thermometer to a polo pole I 1 immersed it above tho the influx of hot water ind keeping it OB cis near the bottom is as possible I 1 moved it down 81 stream ream the result was a very low temperature at the alio bottom lintlom liot lom gradually rising using to ga until antil I 1 readied reached a point a fourth of a mile down the stream where the temperature pera ture became uniform throughout this stream is one of the man anany that form the licad head waters of the coumbis river and to 0 o this point over eighteen hundred miles flora its mouth in the spring and fall the salt fait water salmon onic anio in Lund reds V ti spawn |