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 land of wonders also an (14571779748)

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Title: 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 land of wonders ... also an appendix containing railroad lines and rates, as well as other miscellaneous information
Year: 1883 (1880s)
Authors: Winser, Henry Jacob, 1823-1896
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Publisher: New York : G.P. Putnam's Sons
Contributing Library: Harold B. Lee Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Brigham Young University



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ing, situated on the very verge of the water.From this a boiling stream is poured into the cold and limpid flood. Thereare other craters, built partly in and partly out of the lake; while at somedistance from the strand the eye rests upon deep, dark caverns, easily dis-tinguishable from the surrounding shallows, out of the depths of whichstreams of gas-bubbles are constantly rushing to the surface. On a gentleslope extending along the shore of the lake for over a mile and reachingfar back into the woods, are flowing springs of all sizes, shapes and colors.Some of the pools are from thirty to seventy feet in length and from fifteenlo forty feet in width. The water is apparently fathomless, and of inde-scribable translucency. Convulsive throbbings, accompanied by clouds ofvapor, are constant. The largest springs are a turquoise blue, others areemerald; still others are pure white, while some are red and other hues.The craters of all these various fountains are lined with a silvery white
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NATURAL BRIDGE. HOT SPRINGS AT LAKE. fil deposit which illuminates, by reflection, the perpendicular but irregular wallsto an immense depth. Indeed, it would seem that objects hundreds of feetdown in the crystalline abysses are distinctly visible. An anomalous feat-ure of this wonderful hot spring system is that pools of different colors lie inclosest proximity, each spring being independent of the other, having vary-ing levels at the surface, as well as varying temperatures and pulsations.While some of the pools are in halcyon repose others are angrily boiling.The fretwork formations on the sides and rims of the craters are exquis-itely beautiful. No possible description could convey the faintest idea ofthe opulence of coloring, nor of the variety and delicacy of the deposits.Some of the latter seem to be as fragile as the down on a butterflys wing,and as evanescent to the touch; while others, particularly the silicious, are ashard as adamant. Seldom are the water and deposits of any