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Identifier: stnicholasserial351dodg (find matches)
Title: St. Nicholas (serial)
Year: 1873 (1870s)
Authors: Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905
Subjects: Children's literature
Publisher: (New York : Scribner & Co.)
Contributing Library: Information and Library Science Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Digitizing Sponsor: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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Mountain, made up entirelyof earths tinted scarlet and purple, orange and IN THE LAND OF FIRE AND STEAM 497 pink and green. The valley below is fairly robedin vapor-clouds; and here within a few acres areten mighty geysers of boiling water in activeeruption, beside hundreds of miniature mud-vol-canoes forever thumping and bubbling. The very precipices hemming in the valley arestone walls so hot that one can not rest oneshand upon them; and all through the treacherousscrub the ground is quivering and muttering andthrowing sulphur-laden steam. Here is the strangest of volcanoes, Mount Kakaramea, whoseentire north side appears to have been boiled softby steam from the interior of the earth, so that itappears on the point of collapse. Its summit isblazing crimson in hue; while from every crackand cleft, fierce jets of steam and boiling waterare streaming. It is no wonder the gentle Maori fear suchphenomena. One dark night years ago the nativetown of Te-Rapa was buried, like another Hercu-
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THE HUGE BOILING LAKE OF ROTOMAHANA. Champagne Cauldron, the mouth of whichmeasures eighty feet from lip to lip; the bottleis eighty-three feet deep, evidently blown out ofthe solid rock. Amid dense clouds of scaldingsteam the water shoots up periodically, an exquis-ite blue in hue, churned into dazzling foam, out ofwhich effervescent waves are flowing fast uponeach other to the ice-cold river below. Roundabout are great porridge cauldrons, throbbinglike steam-engines, and lovely sapphire-blue poolswith snow-white borders. Only a couple of milesfrom the native village of Tokaanu lies the laneum, under an avalanche of steaming mud, andevery soul perished. Higher up is the smokingpeak of Ngauruhoe, casting hot stones and asheswith violent explosions, and lighting by night thelovely face of Lake Taupo. Look down the walls of Ngauruhoes craterand you will see it literally incrusted with glitter-ing sulphur crystals, weirdly varied with opales-cent shades of red. Is it not strange that men

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Note the photograph was taken before April 1908 when this article was published in the series. It is most likely to have been taken only shortly before and not in 1873 when the journal series commenced, when the boats on Lake Rotomahana would have been mainly canoes. The date may be after the 1886 eruption of Mount Tarawera as there is little vegetation shown, and reference pictures of the steaming features of the then lake taken prior to 1875 all appear to show much more vegetation. see Rotomahana; and the boiling springs of New Zealand. Sampson Low, Marston Low, and Searle, Crown buildings, Fleet Street (1875). Retrieved on 2022-10-16.