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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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got there ; we concluded that thegeyser sometimes ejected its contents. This year, however,investigation seemed to prove that the mud is carried upmechanically, mixed with the steam that is constantly risingfrom the caldron, and that the spring never has any eruptions.We were led to this opinion first by noticing that it was onlythe under side of the branches that held the mud. Mr.Holmes then placed some dead branches in such a positionthat the steam came upon them, and in a few hours they had acoating of mud. Again, some of the trees of which thebranches are coated are living, which would hardly be the casehad they received the mud from an eruption. Again, reasonalso is found in the fact that the surface of the spring is con-stantly agitated, which is rarely or never the case with a truegeyser. Still, in the past it may have been a geyser, and hadregular eruptions. About twenty rods distant northward from the Mud Geyseris another large boiling spring of crystalline water, called the
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GRAND TOUR OF THE PARK. 93 Grotto, sending off volumes of sulphurous vapor. It isvery curious in its operation, eructating at intervals with aloud belch, filling its basin to the brim, its pulsations shakingthe ground. It then suddenly draws the water in again witha tremendous gurgle, repeating the process ad ififinitum. Theopening is three feet high, eight feet wide and about twentyfeet deep. The entrance is somewhat like a Gothic arch, andthe walls within and without are stained in various shades ofbright green by the mineral constituents of the water. Nearthis point in 1877 the Nez Perce Indians crossed the river,hotly pursued by the gallant Howard and his troops. It hassince been known as the Nez Perc6 ford. Remains of thebreastworks behind which Chief Joseph entrenched himself fora time are still visible. The Yellowstone Lake.—This large and beautiful sheetof water lies in the lap of snow-capped mountains at an eleva-tion of 7,788 feet above the sea. Its peculiar shape, rudelyr

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