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are lined with a coating of cup-[51]
crystallized sulphur and discharge
[illegible] moist hot air. Three were
tested with the thermometer and
gave a temperature of 95° C.
One having almost no sulphur
in it had a temperature of 96° C.
During the past few years the burnt
area has not increased percept-
ibly toward the east, but it has
spread up the slope of L' Echelle
where new vents have opened and
boiling springs have developed.
These seem to owe their origin mainly
to the damming of surface drainage
from the mountain. The lower
of the spring is now five to six
meters in diameter, almost cir-
cular in outline and is and
more than one and one-half meters