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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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eam, lest the horses feet be scaldedin the boiling springs which line the banks. The Basin, fiveacres m extent, is the scene of a body of nearly extinct geysersand hissing springs. The grotesque shapes of the geyser conesand their monumental appearance give the name of the Basinits significance. There are twelve of these monumental cones,ranging in height from six to twenty feet, all of which haveorifices in the top. From a few of ihese fumaroles volumes ofsteam constantly issue; the majority, however, are apparentlylifeless, and are fast crumbling away. One of these conessomewhat resembles a crouching lioiiess; another, a headlessman; a third, like a slender chimney, pours out a cloud ofsmoke; a fourth whistles like a locomotive; a fifth belches outsteam with a whizzing sound which is quite deafening as youstand by, and is audible for miles. A stout pine limb placedover its vent will, in about a minute, dry and shrivel in thesuperheated steam and drop asunder. There are also caldrons
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48 YELLOWSTONE NATIONAL PARK. of boiling sulphur and drab-colored mud, besides numerousfrying-pans and puffing holes. Around the rims of the poolsare beautiful crystals of sulphur, like frost and bead work.This Basin is only a dwindling fragment of what it was at noremote period; but its curious features are, nevertheless, wellworth looking at. The view of Elk Park and the river fromthe crest of the mountain spur is also quite enjoyable. The Gibbon Canon.—The towering walls of the GibbonCailon, at one place 2,000 feet in height, completely overshadowthe road, and present a perfect picture of a wild and romanticmountain gorge. The river is bordered by many small geysersand boiling springs, which impress their strangeness andbeauties upon the mind, and any one of which would drawmultitudes to see it, and to marvel at it, if only it stood apartfrom this lavish exhibit of wonderful things. After traversingthis pass a distance of three miles, with its bewitching vistas ofrock and glen, t

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