The Yellowstone National Park - historical and descriptive - illustrated with maps, views and portraits (1903) (14577269817)

Identifier: yellowstonenatio1904chit (find matches)
Title: The Yellowstone National Park : historical and descriptive : illustrated with maps, views and portraits
Year: 1903 (1900s)
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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acles,which give a castellated and romantic air to the whole.Eagles build their nests here, and soar midway throughthe vast chasm, far below the beholder. The more prom-inent of the projecting ledges cause many turns in thegeneral course of the canon, and give numerous vantageplaces for sight-seeing. Lookout Point is one of these,half a mile below the Lower Falls. Inspiration Point,6ome two miles farther down, is another. The gorgeouscoloring of the canon walls does not extend through itsentire length of twenty miles. In the lower portion, theforests have crept well down to the waters edge. Still, itis everywhere an extremely beautiful and impressive sight.Along the bottom of the canon, numerous steam vents canbe seen, one of which, it is said, exhibits geyseric action.In places, the canon walls almost shut out the light of dayfrom the extreme bottom. Lieutenant Doane, who madethe dangerous descent several miles below the Falls, re-cords that it was about three oclock P. M., and stars
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Lower Fall, through Rain Mist. A TOUR OF THE PARK. 319 could be distinctly seen, so much of the sunlight was cutoff from entering the chasm. The Loiver Fall of the Yellowstone must be placed inthe front rank of similar phenomena. It carries not one-twentieth of the water of Niagara, but Niagara, is in nosingle part so beautiful. Its height is 310 feet. Its descentis very regular, slightly broken by a point of rock on theright bank. A third of the fall is hidden behind the vastcloud of spray which forever conceals the mad play of thewaters beneath; but the mighty turmoil of that recess inthe rocks may be judged from the deep-toned thunderwhich rises in ceaseless cadence and jars the air for milesaround. To many visitors the stream far down in the bottomof the canon is the crowning beauty of the whole scene. Itis so distant that its rapid course is diminished to thegentlest movement, and its continuous roar to the subduedmurmur of the pine forests. Its winding, hide-and-seekcourse, its