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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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where exists amost remarkable phenomenon. From the northand from the south issue two streams, which flowalong the top of the Continental Divide towardseach other until each finally divides, one part pass-ing down the Atlantic slope and the other down thePacific, thus forming a continuous natural waterconnection between the Atlantic and Pacific Oceansnearly six thousand miles long. It is supposedthat the fish in the Yellowstone Lake enteredthrough this connection. On the road from the Lake to the Falls thetourist passes Mud Volcano, Mud Geyser, SulphurMountain, and the beautiful Hayden Valley; buthis growing impatience to behold the crowningglory of all—the Grand Canyon—will not permithim to devote much time to their minute inspec-tion. As the Upper Falls are neared the road becomesdecidedly picturesque. At one point it is hungupon the side of an almost perpendicular cliff over-looking the rapids of the river; at another it crossesa deep ravine over the highest bridge in the Park.
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THE P K X X S Y L V A X I A RAILROAD. The Yellowstone Park A short distance below this point the nowrushing river turns abruptly to the right and dis-appears. Here are the Upper Falls of the Yellow-stone. The narrowness of the vent and the velocityof the current forces the stream far out from theface of the vertical rock in one bold leap of 112 feet. A few hundred yards beyond this point a sharpbend in the road unfolds to the visitor, all at once,the whole vista of the Grand Canyon of the Yellow-stone. For twelve miles it stretches out below theFalls, dropping sheer from a thousand to fifteenhundred feet, and bearing upon the face of itswalls the most glorious color work in the world.At the head of the canyon, enveloped now in part,now in total, by a floating robe of mist, are theLower Falls, where the river plunges headlong overa precipice 310 feet high, and then silently andbeautifully winds its way along the bottom of themighty gorge, a sinuous hne of hving green. Bozeman A few mil

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