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Title: Tours to the Yellowstone Park and Pacific Coast : July 3, August 6, September 3, 1906
Year: 1906 (1900s)
Authors: Pennsylvania Railroad
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Publisher: (Philadelphia) : Pennsylvania Railroad
Contributing Library: Harold B. Lee Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Brigham Young University

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s are marvels of beauty. Theiroverhanging bowls, adorned with delicate fret-work, are among the finest specimens of Natureshandiwork in the world, and the colored watersthemselves are startling in their brilliancy. Red,pink, black, canary, green, saffron, blue, chocolate,and all their intermediate gradations are foundhere in exquisite harmony. The springs rise in terraces of various heightsand widths, having intermingled with their delicateshades chalk-like cliffs, soft and crumbly. Theseare the remains of springs from which the life andbeauty have departed. As the tourist proceeds through the GoldenGate and along Kingman Pass toward those objectsin which his keenest interest centres—the Geysers—he may see to the northward, casting the shadow ofits mighty presence over all the valley, that old sen-tinel of the Park, Electric Peak, whose snow-cappedhead rises 11,150 feet above sea level. Twelve miles from the Springs is found a mostcurious volcanic formation. Obsidian Cliff, as its
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Park THE PENNSYLVANIA RAILROAD. The name indicates, is a cliff of natural glass at the head Yellowstone ^f Beavei Lake (so named from the old beaver dam which forms it), rising black and jagged in vertical columns 200 feet above the road. Here is located the only road of native glass upon the continent. After passing Obsidian Cliff evidences of hot-spring action constantly increase, until they reachtheir climax in the Norris Geyser Basin. This ba-sin is supposed to be among the most recent vol-canic developments of the region; but, althoughit naturally receives a large amount of attentionfrom the fact that it contains the first geysers com-ing to the notice of the tourists, it is, in reality, ofminor importance as compared with the FireholeBasin. The main objects of interest here are theMonarch Geyser, the largest in the basin, the BlackGrowler, and the Hurricane. The eruptions of theMonarch are very irregular, but it sometimes dis-plays tremendous power, forcing the hottest ofwater t

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