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Title: Official guide to the Yellowstone National Park : a manual for tourists, being a description of the Mammoth hot springs, the geyser basins, the cataracts, the cañons and other features of the new wonderland : with twenty-one illustrations, a plan of the upper geyser basin and route maps : also an appendix, containing railroad rates, as well as other miscellaneous information
Year: 1888 (1880s)
Authors: Riley, W. C. (William C.) Hyde, John, 1848-1929
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Publisher: St. Paul : Northern News Co.
Contributing Library: Harold B. Lee Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Brigham Young University

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hort distance to the left of this colossus isthe Grotto, whose labyrinths are thickly encrusted with pearlsof dazzling lustre. Upon a gentle acclivity, not far to thewestward, the Splendid, a young and energetic geyser, im-provises a majestic column at least once in three hours, whichit decks with luminous vapor like drapery of silver sheen.Then, further on, toward the south, near the extreme end ofthe Basin, are the Fan, with diverging jets, and the Riverside,rearing itself from the very brink of the stream, each beingfrequently in action, the last-named shooting a strongly curvedcolumn, which breaks into spray and falls into the water likethreads of gleaming light, that sparkle and flash with theeffulgence of the rainbow, which is visible in the surroundingvapor. There are no less than 440 springs and geysers,according to the report of Dr. Haydens latest survey, in theUpper Geyser Basin. Of these, at least twenty-six are knownto be really geysers. Among the springs are scores, the 5
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Old Faithful Geyser in Action. GRAND TOUR OF THE PARK. 67 astonishing beauty of which, with respect to the color, depth andtranslucency of the water, and the wonderful delicacy, variety,and richness of the silicious crystallizations, are not to bedescribed. Geysers exist, it is true, in Iceland and New Zea-land ; but there are none to be found in groups so magnificentas here, nor are they likely to be reproduced elsewhere on sogrand a scale. In the following more detailed description of the chiefgeysers and springs of the various basins, the writer has drawnlargely for valuable data upon the report recently publishedby the Department of the Interior of the United States Geo-logical Survey, made under the direction of Dr. F. V. Hayden,in 1878, and especially upon that part of the volume which con-tams the description, by Dr. A. C. Peale, of the ^ ThermalSprings of the National Park. Old Faithful.—This geyser is one of the most interestingin the Park because of the great regularity wi

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