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| | Oregon Trail in Idaho--Hooper, Soda, & Steamboat Springs |
 | | The first object of curiosity we came to were several white mounds on the top of which were small springs of soda. |
 | | We took with us some soda and Acid to try the effect of a mixture and found that it effervesced with both, but the effervescence was greater with the Acid, than with the Soda. |
 | | The whole river, from the Steamboat spring to the Soda Springs, (a distance of more than a fourth of a mile), is a sheet of springs, thousands in number, which bursting through two feet of superincumbent running water, throw their foaming jets, some six inches, and some less, above the surface. |
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