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Identifier: travelsamongstg00whym (find matches)
Title: Travels amongst the great Andes of the equator
Year: 1894 (1890s)
Authors: Whymper, Edward, 1840-1911
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Publisher: New York, Scribner
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age infiltrates to great depths,and supplies much of the steam that escapes from the active volcanoes. Little of itreappears on the surface in springs. The only warm spring of any size that I sawin the interior was near Machachi, about fifty yards from the west (left) hank of tlieRio Grande, and about fifteen feet above that river. It bubbled up freely in aconsiderable volume in a pool, twelve by ten feet across, with a quantity of gasescaping. The temperature of this spring at mid-day was 69° Faht.. and of the air65 25. It was said that in the early morning the temperature of the water washigher. It was scarcely necessary to investigate the accuracy of this statement.The air temperature in the morning was generally below 55° Faht.; and, if thewarmth of the spring remained constant, the contrast between the two temperatureswould be greater then than at mid-day. People come both to drink at and to bathein this pool. Its taste was compared to Vichy water. CHAP. VIII. SIXCIIOLAGUA. 161
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clasping the rocks with its fingers andarms. We tied up. and steered north-eastover some rugged ground. The mannerof approach had heen settled hefore-hand. The south side of SincholaguaAvas inaccessible ; garnished with pin-

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