“ London might well be said to be all in tears the mourners did not go about the streets indeed for nobody put on black, or made a formal dress of mourning for their nearest friends; but the voice of mourning was truly heard in the street the shrieks of women and children at the windows, and doors of their houses, where their dearest relations were, perhaps dying, or just dead, were so frequent to be heard, as we passed the streets, that it was enough to pierce the stoutest heart in the world, to hear them. ”

“ As soon as the fourth jet was thrown out, which was much less than the former, and scarcely at the interval of two minutes from the first, the water sunk rapidly in the basin, with a rushing noise, and nothing was to be seen but the column of steam, which had been continually increasing from the commencement of the eruption, and was now ascending perpendicularly to an amazing height, as there was scarcely any wind, expanding in bulk as it rose, but decreasing in density, till the upper part of the column gradually lost itself in the surrounding atmosphere. ”

“ From an orifice, nine feet in diameter, which lay directly before me, at the distance of about an hundred yards, a column of water, accompanied with prodigious volumes of steam, was erupted with inconceivable force, and a tremendously roaring noise, to varied heights, of from fifty to eighty feet, and threatened to darken the horizon, though brightly illnminated by the morning sun. During the first quarter of an hour, I found it impossible to move from my knees, but poured out my soul in solemn adoration of the Almighty Author of nature:—“who looketh on the earth and it trembleth ”

“ The thunders which bellowed from the abyss, and the loveliness of the falling element, which glittered like molten silver in the moonlight, seemed to complete, in absolute perfection, the rare union of the beautiful with the sublime. ”

“ Although enveloped in a cloud of spray, we could distinguish without difficulty the direction of our path, and the nature of the cavern we were about to enter. Our guide warned us of the difficulty of respiration which we should encounter from the spray, and recommended us to look with exclusive attention to the security of our footing. Thus warned we pushed forward, blown about and buffeted by the wind, stunned by the noise, and blinded by the spray. Each successive gust penetrated us to the very bone with cold. ”

“ The principal of these springs, called the Geyser, issues from a circular mound of silicious earth; at the top of which is a large circular basin, about forty feet diameter, from the centre of which the water issues. A modern traveller gives the following account of a visit to this famous spring:-
At nine o’clock I heard a hollow subterraneous noise which was thrice repeated in the course of a few moments;—the two last reports followed each other more quickly than the first and second had done. ”

“ Sometimes persons dropped down dead in the streets; many died without any warning not knowing they had the plague; and others had only time to go to the next porch or door, sit down, and die, unnoticed and disregarded by the passengers. ”

“ Describing one of thesc jets which rose in a column of water not less than ninety feet in height, and about fifty-one feet in diameter, the traveller says—The bottom of it was a prodigious body of white foam; higher up, amidst the vast clouds of steam that had burst from the pipe, the water was seen mounting in a compact column, which, at a still greater elevation, burst into innumerable long and narrow streamlets of spray, that were either shot to a vast height in the air in a perpendicular direction, or thrown out from the side, diagonally, to a prodigious distance. ”

“ Such scenes exhibit only "the hiding of Jehovah’s power," It is merely the surface of his works that is visible. Their internal structure He hath involved in obscurity; and after the closest and most unwearied application, the utmost we can boast of is, that we have heard a whisper of His proceedings, and investigated the extremities of His operation.
On the morning of the 29th I was awakened at twenty-three minutes past five o’clock, to contemplate an eruption of the New Geyser, situated at the distance of an hundred and forty yards to the south of the principal fountain. ”

“ There was, however, sufficient time allowed me to make observations; for, during the space of an hour and a half, an uninterrupted column of water was continually spouted out to the elevation of 150 feet, with but little variation, and in a body of 17 feet in its widest diameter; and this was thrown up with such force and rapidity, that the column continued to nearly the very summit as compact in body, and as regular in width and shape, as when it first issued from the pipe ”

“ At the Grande Mullee, they stopped for the night, under a tent, which they took with them, in which, with blankets, &c., they were warm and comfortable, disturbed only by the noise of avalanches falling all around them. On the 25th, at day-break, they proceeded up a valley of snow, then took a new route, by which they had escaped the dangers which had destroyed those men who had made a similar attempt before. As they got towards the top their fatigue and weakness became extreme ”