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 (14758074362)

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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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m holes which, says Dr. Peale, look as though they had just burstthrough the surface, and the gully leading towards the ravine to the southis covered with sand that appears to have been poured out during an erup-tion. Trees standing in the line of this sand-flood are dead, and a numberare uprooted and covered with sand. Everything seems to point to the factof the recent formation of this vent. There is no deposit marking theopening, although stones surrounding the hole are beginning to have pointsof geyserite deposited on their upper surfaces. Colonel Norris says thatthis vent had no existence in 1875, but that in 1878 it had become a power-ful flowing geyser. This promises to be one of the most interesting geysersin the Park, as it will afford most important data as to the buildingof the deposits and the age of the geysers. On the left of the road,within a rod or two of the mud pot, is the Emerald Pool, itslarge deep bowl brim full of purest water of the bluish green tint of a beryl.
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THE GIBBON BASIN PAINT POTS. 29 Just beyond this Bhining pool, at the foot of the ridge, is the MinuteMan, who faithfully spurts once in sixty seconds a bold stream to theheight of twenty-five or thirty feet, from an orifice in the rock about sixinches in diameter. To the east, near the bluff in a small cove, enthronedamong rough boulders of gorgeous colors, is the Monarch. He spoutsin regal splendor, once in twent)T-four hour3, a stream from 100 to 125 feethigh, through three elongated orifices, respectively 2 by 12, 1% by 11,and 5 by 6 feet in dimensions. The eruption continues about twentyminutes, and the flow of hot wnter is immense. The Fearless isnext seen, its funnel-shaped crater spouting dark green water, which shadesoff at the margin of the basin into pale green and violet tints. Elk Park.—Three miles beyond the Norris Geyser Basin is ElkPark, a meadow about five miles in circumference, surrounded by woodedmountains, with the Gibbon River winding through it. Here is an exc