p. 119 | A REGION OF WONDERS

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Apr 11, 1878

A REGION OF WONDERS.

A CORRESPONDENT who has been visiting a portion of California known as the Big Meadow, thus describes some of the natural wonders he saw there:—

Two miles from here are the Geysers. One of them, as clear as crystal, throws boiling water about twenty-five feet high; the next is a mud spring, and throws about ten feet, while the other is only a boiling spring and changes every other year to a blood red. Besides these, the whole canyon is nothing but steam escaping for over one hundred yards. One mile and a half from here is a boiling lake of the consistency and color of soapsuds. It is four hundred yards long and two hundred wide. Two miles further on is Hot Spring Valley. Here, within a distance of one hundred yards, are between two hundred and three hundred boiling springs—no two alike, and showing every kind of mineral imaginable. Half a mile from here, over the mountain, is another lake, with neither inlet nor outlet in view, and it is also full of large trout, and the water is as clear as crystal. It is four miles from here to Morgan's Valley, where can be found, it is said, the best sulphur springs in the world. Following up the canyon there are nearly a thousand different kinds of mineral springs, including all kinds of “paint” springs. One of these springs has cost the cattle men about $10,000 within the last nine or ten years. It is apparently arsenical. It is death to man or beast if only tasted. Seven miles further on is Lassen Butte. From here one of the grandest views is obtained. In the far distance is the sea, and nearer is our beautiful Sacramento river, winding through the broad valley for a hundred miles or more. There is plenty of chance to hunt all over this wide range for either bear or deer, and it does not take much trouble to find either of them.—Bible Banner.