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Show OF AMERICA. 103 quite a large stream of water from an opening in the solid rock, but a few feet distant from the road. Running through a drain which has been dug to prevent the road from being flooded, it spreads out into a pretty lake which is a favorite resort for large numbers of wild ducks in the fall, and in the winter it is the grand natural skating park of Salt Lake City. Where the water escapes from the rock the temperature of it is at least 130 degrees, and several feet distant it was so uncomfortably hot as not to permit me holding my hand in it for a second. I resorted to the popular test of hot water in such springs, and put in some eggs to boil, but as the process of coagulating was going on rather slowly, and night approaching more rapidly, with several bad places in the road to the city, and a demor alized driver, because he was kept out so late, I abandoned the experiment and left my eggs for the breakfast of the first emigrant who should pass in the morning, if he felt inclined to indulge in the luxury. But I fancy, if he were a Gentile, he supposed they had been poisoned, and put there by a Mormon, and if a Mormon, that the same diabolical act had been done by a Gentile, and the eggs were probably not disturbed. A tale is told of a miner from Montana, whose love for the saints in Utah was not of a very high order ( as is the case with miners generally), who passed the spring on his way to the city. Before doing so, however, he concluded to take a bath without trying the temperature of the water in the spring itself, though he had done so in the drain a few yards from it. A Mormon happened to be passing along at the time, and seeing that the man was laboring under some mistake, or crazy, went to him, kindly re marking that he couldn't bathe there. This aroused the Gentile, who very indignantly responded, with sundry oaths, that he would do anything in that country that a Mormon could do. He thought the man questioned his right to use the spring, and continuing his disrobing, stepped into the water up to his knees, to jump out again with a good deal more agility than when he stepped in, very much to the |