The Yellowstone National Park - historical and descriptive - illustrated with maps, views and portraits (1895) (14741632626)

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Title: The Yellowstone National Park : historical and descriptive : illustrated with maps, views and portraits

Year: 1895 (1890s)

Authors: Chittenden, Hiram Martin, 1858-1917

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Publisher: Cincinnati : R. Clarke Co.

Contributing Library: Harold B. Lee Library

Digitizing Sponsor: Brigham Young University

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t. With an average interval of sixty-five minutes, it varies but little either way. Nightand day, winter and summer, seen or unseen, this tremendous fountain has been playing for untoldages. Only in thousands of years can its lifetime bereckoned; for the visible work it has wrought, and itspresent infinitely slow rate of progress, fairly appallthe inquirer who seeks to learn its real age. It is worth while, however, to note the enormouswrork which this geyser daily performs. A conserva-tive estimate, based upon an extended series of obser-vations made in 1878 by the United States GeologicalSurvey, shows that the outpour for an average erup-tion is not less 1,500,000 gallons, which gives 33,225,-000 gallons per day. This would supply a city of300,000 inhabitants. The combination of conditionsby which the supply of heat and water, and the formof tube, are so perfectly adapted to their work, thateven a chronometer is scarcely more regular in its ac-tion, is one of the miracles of nature.

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Terry Engr. Co. U. S. Geological Survey of the Territories. Kepler Cascade. A TOUR OF THE PARK. 237 CHAPTER XVII. A TOUR OF THE PARK. Upper Geyser Basin to the Yellowstone Lake. Distance, nineteen miles. The route ascends theFirehole River to the mouth of Spring Creek, whichstream it follows to the Continental Divide. Forseven miles it then lies on the Pacific slope, afterwhich it descends the mountains to the YellowstoneLake. The drive is one of the most pleasant in thePark, and the scenery is unconventional and wild. Kepler Cascade (1.25 miles) is a fascinating water-fall. Lieutenant Doane, who first wrote of it, says:* These pretty little falls, if located on an easternstream, would be celebrated in history and song;here, amid objects so grand as to strain conceptionand stagger belief, they were passed without a halt. We counsel the tourist not to so pass them. Half a mile up the Firehole, above the mouth ofSpring Creek, is the Lone Star Geyser (4J miles).This geyser is conspicuous

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