steam-holes

Updated: July 23, 2025

One must walk cautiously among these boiling mud-pits, open springs, and steam-holes, for a misstep might prove fatal. Dangerous caldrons lie on either side of the path, within a few inches of where one may be walking all unsuspiciously.

Maturin Murray Ballou - Foot-prints of Travel: or, Journeyings in Many Lands

Near the shore of Lake Rotorua, where it is shallow, a boiling spring forces its way to the surface of the surrounding cold water, telling of a submerged fiery caldron underlying the lake at that particular point. It is, however, no more significant than the scores of other steam-holes and spouting geysers which force themselves to the surface of the land all about this sulphurous region.

Maturin Murray Ballou - Foot-prints of Travel: or, Journeyings in Many Lands