The Vale Of Reikum, Which We Now Entered, Is, Like That Of Reikholt,
Rich In Hot Springs, Which Are Congregated Partly In The Plain,
Partly On Or Behind The Hills, In A Circumference Of Between Two And
Three Miles.
When we had reached the village of Reikum I sent my effects at once
to the little church, took a guide, and proceeded to the boiling
springs.
I found very many, but only two remarkable ones; these,
however, belong to the most noteworthy of their kind. The one is
called the little Geyser, the other the Bogensprung.
The little Geyser has an inner basin of about three feet diameter.
The water boils violently at a depth of from two to three feet, and
remains within its bounds till it begins to spout, when it projects
a beautiful voluminous steam of from 20 to 30 feet high.
At half-past eight in the evening I had the good fortune to see one
of these eruptions, and needed not, as I had done at the great
Geyser, to bivouac near it for days and nights. The eruption lasted
some time, and was tolerably equable; only sometimes the column of
water sank a little, to rise to its former height with renewed
force. After forty minutes it fell quite down into the basin again.
The stones we threw in, it rejected at once, or in a few seconds,
shivered into pieces, to a height of about 12 to 15 feet. Its bulk
must have been 1 to 1.5 feet in diameter.
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