In summer, when the snow melts, the torrents are quite impassable; their strength and fury are then extremely great, as might be plainly seen by the marks which they had left.

We reached the baths in the evening, and stayed there five days, being confined the two last by heavy rain.

The buildings consist of a square of miserable little hovels, each with a single table and bench.

They are situated in a narrow deep valley just without the central Cordillera.

It is a quiet, solitary spot, with a good deal of wild beauty.
The mineral springs of Cauquenes burst forth on a line of dislocation, crossing a mass of stratified rock, the whole of which betrays the action of heat.