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Title: Grand tour 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: 1889 (1880s)
Authors: W.C. Riley (Firm)
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Publisher: St. Paul, Minn. : W.C. Riley
Contributing Library: Harold B. Lee Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Brigham Young University

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ear the edges into brilliantshades of red, brown, green and yellow. The largest springs,supplying most of the water to the tiers of bowls on each ofthe terraces, are situated on a broad, level space covering someacres at the top of the hill. One has a basin forty feet inlength by twenty-five in width. Others are nearly as great.The water is a turquoise blue, and so perfectly translucent thatthe most microscopic fretting deep down upon the sides andbottoms of the pools is plainly visible. This is the case withthe hot-spring water everywhere. Its crystal clearness can notbe described; it must be seen to be appreciated. The crustbetween the springs seems rather treacherous to the foot, andit is impossible to get about without soaking the shoes in hotwater. Most of the springs have two centres of ebullition, atwhich, doubtless, the water is at the boiling point; but at theedfes the temperature is much lower. Around the hottestpooU, in many cases, there are strung along the rim, like beads
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MAMMOTH HOT SPRINGS. 81 on a necklace, a row of nodules as large as hazel nuts and hardas adamant. The play of the waters as they seethe up fromthe cavernous throats of the pools and undulate in miniaturewaves is wonderful. The rays of light are refracted by theagitation upon the surface, and are resolved into all the colorsof the prism. In several places beneath the crust the rush and gurgle offlowing water is distinctly heard. There is one cleft, a foot ormore in width, revealing a steaming stream traceable over ahundred yards in its course to the flashing pools below. Thehot-water vegetation is a curious feature of all the cooler rillswhich flow from the boiling springs. There is an abundanceof yellow, green, red, white and brown confervae, covered withsulphur, which stream in long threads of silken texture throughthe gullies. These streaming filaments are very pretty. Cleopatra Spring.—Among the principal springs is theCleopatra, so named by some of the earlier visitors. It is t

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