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Title: Burton Holmes travelogues
Year: 1908 (1900s)
Authors: Holmes, Burton, 1870-1958
Subjects: Voyages and travels
Publisher: New York : McClure Co.
Contributing Library: Harold B. Lee Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Brigham Young University

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YELLOWSTONE NATIONAL PARK 29 preceded us and laid the dust along our way. As our coachtoils slowly upward, as the murmur of the river grows fainter,as the cliff-like canon-walls draw nearer and nearer to oneanother, we forget the steep grades of the heavy road inadmiration of scenes through which it leads us. We arebut four miles from the springs, and yet we are a thousandfeet nearer the skies, two thousand feet above the railwayterminus, and seven thousand feet above the sea. And presently the golden portals slowly open, revealingto us a broad valley circled by mountains and dominated bya cloudland, all of silver. Far off we see the Gallatins, arange whose average altitude above the sea is over 10,000feet, but the great height of the park plateau reduces moun-tains to mere hills,
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GOLDEN GATE ROAD 30 YELLOWSTONE NATIONAL PARK surround this plateau led the discoverers to entitle it ElectricPeak. It is a sort of giant storage-battery ; explorers attempt-ing to attain the summit have been baffled by electric forces,which caused their fingers to prick and tingle and their hairto stand on end. They had, indeed, a shocking experience.But leaving behind this huge Leyden jar, we approach, anhour later, a unique feature, a mountain made of glass.That black glistening mass is vitreous matter, obsidian orvolcanic glass, formed by the rapid cooling of a great waveof lava. Harder than stone, obsidian has long been a favor-ite material for the weapons ofprimitive races, and yonder cliffhas furnished the aborigines withcountless arrowheads. It has also furnished oppor-tunities for some of the mostmagnificent lies ever invented bya prevaricating pioneer. One of

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