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Title: Haynes' guide to Yellowstone Park
Year: 1905 (1900s)
Authors: Guptill, A. B. (Albert Brewer), 1854-1931 Haynes, F. Jay (Frank Jay), 1853-1921
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Publisher: St. Paul, Minn. : F.J. Haynes
Contributing Library: Harold B. Lee Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Brigham Young University

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r; however, the extreme westernopening, nearest the knoll and timber, is that fromwhich the Splendid plays. A peculiar feature of thisgeyser is, it will have several eruptions about threehours apart and then remain inactive for a couple ofdays. When in action it throws a powerful streamfully 150 feet in height, increasing in force very per-ceptibly during the earlier stages of its eruptions, andnot reaching the climax for several minutes, apparentlymaintaining its greatest vigor from five to eight min-utes. Quite unlike other geysers, the Splendid throwsits stream at a sharp angle instead of vertically, whichfact, when it was first discovered, caused it to be calledthe Comet; this designation, however, soon gave wayto its present more appropriate appellation. Duringthe afternoon eruptions, if the sun be visible, highlycolored rainbows add to the rare beauty of the displays,and when seen, as it occasionally is, in conjimction witheruptive activity of other small geysers of the Splendid
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70 YDLIvOWSTONE NATIONAL. PARK. group, produces a truly marvelous effect. No percep-tible change in the appearance of its crater follows orprecedes periods of activity, and even during its quietdays the same violent boiling of its v^aters is always thesubject of noticeable comment. The Punch Bowl.—The wagon road leading west-v/ard from the Splendid toward Black Sand and Sun-light Basins passes the Punch Bowl, by far the hand-somest spring of its peculiar class to be found in thegeyser region, if not in the world. Situated on the sum-mit of a small mound of silicious deposit, some five feetabove the general level, it is about ten feet in diameter,with a glittering rim of brilliantly colored formationeighteen inches in height. The constant boiling of itscontents, though only a small part of its surface is agi-tated, as the bubbles of escaping steam and gas arise,produces a wave-like undulation over the entire springand gives it a steady and not inconsiderable overflow.A small cave-lik

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