The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1871-05-27

10 wisrd and suggestive. DR.. Holland in Stop
les of the Time" writes about "Living with
Windows Open" and "The French Republic ;
"Ths Old Cabinet" contains Confessions of a
Couceited Man. and 1.-TWO Weddings" and 9th.
er editorials are on English Pauperage, Wagner
in the Bowery, the kindergarten. etc. We have
room for but . single extract:
The "GIANTEss" GEYsER.-Our search for
new wonders leading US across the Fire Hole
River, We assembled gentle, inorustsd slope,
and came suddenly upon Q large oval aperture
with scsllopsd edges, the diametsrs of which
were eighteen and twenty-five feet, the sides
corrugated and covered with grsyish. white
silicioas deposit, which was distinctly visible at
the depth of one hundred feet below the surface
No water could be discovered, but we could dis.
tinctly hear it gurgling and boiling at great
distance below. Suddenly it began to rise, boil.
ing and splltterine, and sending out huge mass
es of steam, causing general stampede of our
company, driving US some distance from our
point of observation. When within about forty
feet of the surface it became stationary, and we
returned to look down upon it. It was fosming
and surging at terrible rate, occasionally emit
ting small jets of hot water nearly to the mouth
OF the orifics All at once it seemed seized with
fearful spasm, and rose with incredible rapidi-
ty, hardly affsrding US time to flee to safe dis.
lance, when it burst from the orifos with tor.
rihc momentum, rising in column the full size
OF this immense aperture to the height of sixty
feet; and through and out of the apex of this
vast aqueous mast, five or six lesser jets or round
columns of water, varying in size from six to fiji.
teen inches In diameter, were projected to the
marvellous height of two hundred and fifty feet.
These lesser jets, 30 much higher than the main
column, and shooting through it, doubtless prs.
coed from auxiliary pipes leading inte-ths prin.
cipAl ori6ee lnsar the bottom, where the explo.
sive force is greater. If the theory Shat wstsr
by constant boiling becomes explosive when
freed from air DO true, this theory nationally as.
counts tor all irregularities in the sruptions of
geyssrs. -
This grand eruption continued for twenty
minutes, and was the most magnificent sight xe
ever witnessed. We were standing on tho side
of the geyser nearest the sun, the CLEANS Of
which filled the sparkling column of water and
spray with myriads of rainbows, whose arches
were constantly changing-dlpping and Autter.
ing hithsr and tbither. and disappearing only to
be succeeded by Others, again and again, amid
! into which the spent jets were difused when
falling sparkled like shower of diamonds, and
around every shadow which thu denssr clouds
! of vapor, interrupting tho suns rays, cast upon
| the column, could be seen luminous circle "a.
diant with all the colors of the prism, and re-
sembling the halo of glory represented in paint.
ings ss enoircling the head of Divinity. All
that We had previously witnessed seemed tame
in comparison with the perfect grandeur and
beauty of this display. Two of these wonder.
full eruptions occurred during the twenty-five
hours We remained in the valley. This gsyser
we named "The Giantess."