WHITE ISLAND.

Oamaru Mail, Volume I, Issue 43, 10 June 1876, Page 2

WHITE ISLAND.

The following description of § volcano situated in the Bay of| \ been furnished to the " Taurangj' —"I will briefly, therefore, tell» we found the crater surroutj enormous cliffs, split up into tl extraordinary shapes, some in k blocks, and others in masses oft, all more or less perforated wifl from which issue jets of hot ajV steam, while the sides and nm.

thickly coated with .beautiful cfojK pure sulphur. In the centre of tlB which is only divided from the stfl side from which you enter bviHj strip of calcined earth and stones, ifl[ boiling lake of a beautiful emeraljl dotted here and there with bujjH boiling up furiously. The water fi and when cool has a strong adS The margin of this lake is atß chain of steam jets and boiling m-B mingled with large beds of sulplJH at the far side, immediately wB cliffs, are some eight or ten vsstß and chasms in the rocks, which coJK emit enormous volumes of suiß vapour which form a complete clcjß the island. The rush of steam frfi vents can be heard at a consideß tance. Beautiful specimens of B and incrustations abound, and fi mining experience are of opuiigß the quartz and mica which are fogß there is every probability of thefi also gold. Space will not permfflH detail our various individual advfi of our climbing up the perilous B .our shooting and hunting, findingß bed, also a water-cask from somtß full.of fresh water, of our tumblifi scaldings, and narrow escapes; kB that the evening found us gatherß ther on the beach, waiting for tifi with our kits of specimens, -andß .about on hot boulders. wearViMM ■ with our day's excursion. . 'B