. Grand tour guide to 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 new wonderland : with twenty-one illustrations, a plan of the upper geyser basin and route maps : also an appendix containing railroad rates, as well as other miscellaneous information . s penetrate these mist clouds at theproper angle, there is at once visible a rainbow not only widerbut richer in color than can anywhere else be seen. A bridle path leads to an eminence one mile below the GreatFall,
. Grand tour guide to 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 new wonderland : with twenty-one illustrations, a plan of the upper geyser basin and route maps : also an appendix containing railroad rates, as well as other miscellaneous information . s penetrate these mist clouds at theproper angle, there is at once visible a rainbow not only widerbut richer in color than can anywhere else be seen. A bridle path leads to an eminence one mile below the GreatFall, called Lookout Point. From this bluff the most satis-factory view of the raging torrent and of both faces of thecanon is to be obtained. The Grand Caiion.—This wonderful gorge displays itselffrom Lookout Point as a scene of enchantment, surpassingevery expectation which the imagination has conjured up ereits remarkable features are witnessed. From the Upper Falls,for a distance of eight miles down the stream, the GrandCanon of the Yellowstone reveals the most varied and aston-ishing groupings of crags and rocks which eye ever them are many hot springs, one of which is particu-larly noticeable as it shoots up clouds of vapor from its ventat the apex of a tall pinnacle. Not alone is the gaze entrancedby the great variety in the form of the towering rocks which. the Grand Cano^.110 GRAND TOUR OF THE PARK. Ill open up in changing pictures like the shifting scenes of atheatre, but also by the marvelous magnificence of this gorgethroughout its vast depth in the brilliant tints of every hue,which the hot springs through long eras have painted upon itssteeps. Some of the colors are as bright as those to be foundin a box of paints ; indeed, it would be difficult to exaggeratetheir brilliancy. These colors often blend in harmoniousshades, especially in the case of reds and yellows, which aretoned down by gradual stages to white of purest along the brink of t
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