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the mound, and then runs off over
the sides.

~  Qnce in a while, loud reports are
heard, as one stands near the great
geyser; and immediately after the loud
report, the water is thrust up through
the pipe with greater violence than
usual.

The water sometimes rises only
twenty or thirty feet; but it very
frequently goes up as high as fifty
and even eighty feet, and it has been
known to go up as high as two hun-
dred feet. I never saw this great boil-
ing spring; but I have often thought

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