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A Girls' College in California.-The Co-educational, the Separate, and the Annex Systems..663 As the progress of the nineteenth century has been marked by more startling revelations of science than had been accorded to any previous age, and by marvelous ingenuity in the practical adaptation of great natural forces to human use, so for the same favored era has also been reserved the discovery of some of the most wonderful features of the world's scenery, and the most remarkable display of natural phenomena. to those Nature-brewed, yet fail to reproduce such life-giving elixirs as are distilled by the Great Chemist. While retaining their inherent virtues, such scattered springs have long since lost all their distinctive outward character of natural beauty or picturesque surroundings; their waters (having early been made a source of revenue to their fortunate possessors) have been confined in artificial channels to supply baths and fountains; they have become centers of town life, and are surrounded by hotels and lodgings with all the adjuncts of fashionable watering places, so that no trace remains of the once free stream, geyser, or lonely well, whose healing power first attracted the notice of some poor peasant. . Foremost among these must rank the two But such scattered groups of mineral springs as those hitherto familiar to the civilized nations of Europe now appear insignificant indeed, compared with those recently discovered, both in our own Antipodean Isles, and also amid the exhaustless store of marvels of every description which, year by year, have rewarded the bold explorers of those most inhospitable ranges, the Western Rocky Mountains. From these two points, almost simultaneously, came tidings of the existence of marvelous volcanic re gions-vast laboratories, where, for untold active volcano whose crater has now been ages, Nature has carried on her experiments transformed into a water-funnel, through in every conceivable phase of chemical com- which an intermittent geyser feeds a lake of bination, and where she now invites all suf- intensely acid water), the volcanic belt exfering humanity to come and test the efficacy tends throughout the mountainous district as of the multitudinous remedies offered. In far as Mount Tongariro, which is an active truth, the chief danger of these vast hydro- volcano 6,500 feet in height, clothed with pathic establishments will lie in the multi- snow, but crowned by a dark cinder cone, plicity of sparkling waters, tempting to the whence rises a cloud of heavy smoke, someeye, but holding in solution endless varieties times enlivened by a fierce eruption and red of mineral salts, including deadly poisons; lava streams. For, though the Wonderland so that while there is medicine here to suit of New Zealand has less gorgeousness of every manner of disease, the rash patient mineral clothing than that of Wyoming, it who ventures to drink from a spring which has the advantage of showing volcanic phehas not been fully analyzed, runs much the nomena of all descriptions, from the awful same risk as though he amused himself by eruption of molten rock and the desolation tasting at random from all the bottles in a of black lava-beds, and plains of volcanic chemist's shop. ash, to the most dainty play of trickling waters, building up cones of whitish silica, or stalactites like most delicate corals. Hitherto these Wonder-worlds have been known only to a few wild tribes of savage warriors; the much-tattooed Maories of New Zealand, and the feather-crowned Bannock and Crow Indians of the Yellowstone who alike jealously guarded from the intrusion of the pale faces these well-nigh sacred volcanic regions, where all around seemed suggestive of the supernatural, both in the beneficent healing magic of the exquisite natural baths, and in the awe-inspiring horror of the roaring steam, and awful pools of boiling mud. But now the ubiquitous Anglo-Saxon has effected an entrance, and all such reverent awe will soon be extinguished, as common-place influences are multiplied in the very heart of these guarded territories. The making of good roads whereon to run crowded coaches, the building of palatial hotels for the accommodation of the great tourist host, the imprisonment of divers springs for the supply of baths and drinking-fountains-all will soon prove the white man's determination to leave no corner of the earth unsubdued. The Thermal Springs of the southern hemisphere lie in the Province of Auckland, in New Zealand's northern isle, and extend over a range of country of about a hundred and fifty miles in length, by about thirty in width. Commencing at White Island (which is an isle of sulphur, once the cone of an Here in numerous, distinct groups, connected by a network of varied wonders, we find an endless succession of geysers, solfataras, boiling mud-pools, steaming mountains, natural mineral baths; terracing mountain sides with exquisite shell-like basins of dazzling whiteness, all built up by the ceaseless overflow of the loveliest clear blue water, pouring from the summit geyser, and lying in pools of delight of every depth and every temperature, inviting the weary to revel in a bath more luxurious than anything he ever dreamed of elsewhere, and which is, in truth, the very elixir for which sages of old sought in vain !1 This volcanic region of New Zealand is so very much easier of access than its counterpart in Wyoming, that its wonders became earlier known to us by the writings of a few enterprising travelers-scientific, or otherwise-who have exhausted the resources of word-painting in their endeavors to convey to others the impressions of amazement and delight which they had themselves received, while exploring even very small portions of the wide tract in which these marvels are gathered together. |