| Show tim THE wasll WASIL no IIO the following description or of the natural phenomenon thus thug denominated is from the placerville erville Ameri amerl american cun to the east of the sierra nevada mountain and five miles from carson va lay lies iles wash ho valley and ani antlake lake near the stream that forms the outlet of this his lake and about midway between the he lake and the tile great lealou bof s of 0 the I 1 e truckee on the north is one of the mot remarkable geysers in this part ef of the world we have liate the deschi description from a gentleman of this city cuty who has bar milled lifted aled it ile he describes it as an intermittent spring of boiling volling water from a cavity nearly a foot iu in diame diameter terin in and upon an earthy for formation motion matlon resembling r dembling sem bling reck rack in fit hardness there issues at intervals a jet of boiling water that is often thrown to the i height might of twenty feet and at the end of five minutes entirely subsides forthe for tiie same length of time disappearing many feet downward ard ara from the surface of the tile rock through which it is forced and always accompanied by an Int internal ernat rumbling noe noie nole as it recedes from view few we have often heard of the existence of this geyser but never till now have been able to gather any thing tiling ilke lire an accurate description of it unlike many mally of the so called boiling springs the tile water from this geyser instantly raises the mercury iner cury to and 08 degrees being the boiling point of water |
