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Show NEW ZEALAND'S WHITE I8LAND. BJ Always Enveloped In Clouds of Steam BJ Its Strange Lakes. HJ White Island, In Australia, dorlvos' Kb Its namo from tho clouds of whlto Bfl steam In which It appears to bo con- HJ tlnually enveloped. Its area Is only HJ 600 acres, and Its holght about 880 feet above tho sea lovel. In form and color it is like a ropos-Ing ropos-Ing camol, whllo its interior with its gray, weather-beaten, almost porpen-dicular porpen-dicular cliffs, recalls tho Coliseum at Rqmo. Ovorhanglng tho southern jSJ landing place stands a column of flj rock closely resembling a sentinel, which has been dedicated to tho mom- jHJ ory of Capt. Cook. Tho water of tho island is of n palo green hue, and any-thing any-thing dipped Into it becomes of a red brick color. Tho fumes of sulphur nro always plainly jiorceptlble. On a flno moonlight night n wonder- -H ful sight Is afforded to any ono who will sit in an open boat In ono of tho lakes of the island. Covering an area of CO acres is an immenso caldron hissing and snorting and sending forth volumes of poisonous steam, whllo all chances of ogress appear to bo denied by tho steep, sllont and gloomy cliffs. .H |