APPENDIX.


hundred yards in diameter, almost circular. The thick
bushes were growing almost to the water's edge, and


bowing their heads
stepped into a skiff
fishes attracted my
strike them. The


under its unrippled


surface.


and pushed off. Some immense
attention, and I seized a spear to
boatman laughed, and asked me


hbw far below the surface I supposed they were. I
answered, about four feet. He assured me that they
were at least twenty feet from me, and it was so. The
water is of the most marvelous transparency. I dropped
an ordinary pin in the water, forty feet deep, and saw
its head with perfect distinctness as it lay on the bot-
tom. As we approached the center, I noticed a jagged,
grayish limestone rock beneath us, pierced with holes;
through these holes one seemed to look into unfathom-
able depths. The boat moved slowly on, and now we
hung trembling over the edge of the sunken cliff, and
far below it lies a dark, yawning unfathomable abyss.


From its
velocity,
mouth, I
which is
it shining
think the
confident
from the


gorge comes
a living river.
dropped a te
there 190 feet
on the bottom
water possesses
that the piece


top of a tower


]


toward the north side, al


pouring forth, with immense
 Pushing on just below its
n-cent piece into the water,
in depth, and I clearly saw
a. This seems incredible. I
s a magnifying power. I am
could not be so plainly seen
190 feet high. We rowed on
nd suddenly we perceived the


water, the fish which were darting hither and thither,
the long flexible roots, and the wide, luxuriant grasses
on the bottom, all arrayed in the most brilliant pris-
matic hues. The gentle swell occasioned by the boat


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