26 THE BOILING SPRINGS. when spitefal words are flying about my head. I don’t like them, and never did. When the sun shines on these jets of water, they present a very brilliant appearance. The water looks as if it were as white as SNOW, and rainbows are seen all about it. Besides these jets, there are a great many holes in the earth, through which the water seldom or never comes up, but which are continually sending Up hot vapor. The clouds of vapor some- times thrown out from these holes in the earth, cover @ large space. They