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Title: Official 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: 1888 (1880s)
Authors: Riley, W. C. (William C.) Hyde, John, 1848-1929
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Publisher: St. Paul : Northern News Co.
Contributing Library: Harold B. Lee Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Brigham Young University

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ppeared. Wild geese, ducks and pelicans are plentiful.On the way there are also many hot springs to be seen. Theseare always pleasant to look upon, as constantly presenting newinstances of Natures wayward moods. Mud Geyser and Belching Spring.—These are situatedin a wooded ravine a short distance to the right of the road,attracting attention by their noisiness and columns of vapor.The most terrible geyser in this group has been inactive for afew years past. Its crater, forty-five by seventy-five feet, isstill to be seen. But there are several wonderful objects ofinterest left, an inspection of which ought not to be omitted.The most curious is the Mud Geyser. This is a cavern on theslope of the hill. It has a crater thirty feet in diameter at theverge, which is slightly elevated at the lower side, and hemmedin by the hill on the upper. This yawning crater narrows asit deepens to about fifteen feet at the lowest visible point,thirty feet below. Great volumes of steam escape, ascending
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Scene in the Third CaTion. 90 GRAND TOUR OF THE PARK. 91 high into the air. There is a rumbling sound in regular beatsof a few seconds interval, and a jarring of the earth for somedistance around, after which comes a great surging of theslate-colored mud horizontally out of the orifice under thecliff, beating itself furiously into spray against the walls of thedeep crater, which soon fills nearly to the top. The pastymud is then sucked back with horrible groanings into the vent,utterly disappearing from sight, only to be again belched forthwith renewed rumblings and earth vibrations, perhaps ingreater volume than at first. This is an appalling sight;but it is very fascinating, nevertheless. The spectator isconstantly in expectation that these violent throes of thevolcano will be increased to that degree that the tall treeson the hillside will be splashed by the mud. Indeed,they are coated with it; but upon this point Dr. Pealereports : Last year, when at this locality, we noticed that

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