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Show An Island of Sulphur. In the Bay of Plenty, New Zealand, Is one of the most extraordinary islands in the world. It is called White island, and consists mainly of sulphur mixed with gypsum arid a few other minerals. Over the island, which is about three miles in circumference, and rises between be-tween 800 and 900 feet above the sea, floats continually an immense cloud of vapor attaining an elevation of 10,000 feet. In the center is a boiling lake of acid-charged water, covering fifty acres, and . surrounded with blow-holes from which steam and sulphurous fumes are emitted with great force and noise. With care a boat can be navigated navi-gated on the lake. The sulphur from White island is very pure, but little effort ef-fort has yet been made to procure it systematically. j |