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Title: A series of summer and autumn tours to the Great Lakes, Yellowstone National Park, Pacific Northwest, Alaska, the Canadian Rockies, Utah, Colorado, and California...
Year: 1908 (1900s)
Authors: Raymond-Whitcomb, Inc
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Publisher: Boston : Raymond & Whitcomb Company
Contributing Library: Harold B. Lee Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Brigham Young University

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lto dull ones capacity for such enjoyment by seeing the finest first. Sitka is accounted the end of the northwardThe Return Trip. voyage, although situated many miles south of Glacier Bay and Pyramid Harbor. We have yetnearly a thousand miles of water passage to accomplish before reaching Van-couver and the Puget Sound points. Our track will be in the main over thesame magnificent course we have come, with the omission of the more north-ward portion. There will be a visit to the Taku Glacier (second in interestonly to the Muir Glacier), and landings are likely to be made at Juneau andthe Indian village of Old Kasaan; and the trip will possess fresh interestfrom the fact that much of the scenery missed in the night during the north-bound passage will now be visible. Even with the same grand scenes togaze upon and nothing else, the experience would be enchanting; for thegrand panorama along the Alaskan and British Columbian coast is matchlessin its beauty, variety, and true grandeur. 49
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Terrace at Mammoth Hot Springs, Yellowstone Park. The Yellowstone National Park THE reservation known as the Yellowstone National Park, set apart forpublic uses by an act of Congress passed in 1872, originally covered atract of about sixty-five miles in length from north to south, and aboutfifty-five miles in width from east to west, lying chiefly in northwesternWyoming, and overlapping to a small extent the boundary of Montana onthe north and of Idaho on the west. This gave an area of about 3,575 squaremiles. To this was added in 1801 a forest reservation of nearly 2,000 squaremiles, comprising the country adjacent to the former park on the south andeast. Thus the area of the national reservation has been extended eightmiles south and about twenty-four miles east. The Rocky Mountains crossthe southwestern portion in an irregular line, leaving by far the greaterexpanse on the eastern side. The lowest elevation of any of the narrowvalleys is 6,000 feet, and some of them are from 1,000

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