Popular resorts, and how to reach them . UKSOUlS, AND UOVV TO KKACII IIIKM. .WH .Following down the river from tiie foot of the lake nine miles, wereach Sulphur Mountain, Mud Gei/scr, Mud Volnino, and the liloiritit/Cacern, all objects of separate CRYSTAL FALLS, ON CASCADE CREEK, 129 FEET. Ten miles farther are the two great cataracts, and the GiantCanon of the Yellowstone, ].erhaps the most stupendous elements 344 POPULAK KKSOUrS, AND HOW TO KEACH THEM. of scenery in the park. The upper fall is one hundred and fifteen feetin height. Between the two falls, Cascade Creek fl
Popular resorts, and how to reach them . UKSOUlS, AND UOVV TO KKACII IIIKM. .WH .Following down the river from tiie foot of the lake nine miles, wereach Sulphur Mountain, Mud Gei/scr, Mud Volnino, and the liloiritit/Cacern, all objects of separate CRYSTAL FALLS, ON CASCADE CREEK, 129 FEET. Ten miles farther are the two great cataracts, and the GiantCanon of the Yellowstone, ].erhaps the most stupendous elements 344 POPULAK KKSOUrS, AND HOW TO KEACH THEM. of scenery in the park. The upper fall is one hundred and fifteen feetin height. Between the two falls, Cascade Creek flows into the Yellow-stone frona the west. A short distance above its mouth is located thepicturesque Crystal Falls, or cascade, for it is made up of three distinctfalls, the aggregate height of which is one hundred and twenty-nine lower fall of the Yellowstone, which plunges directly into the canon,is three hundred and fifty feet high, —higher than Bunker Hill Monument,or the spire of Trinity Church, New York ; and the canon itself, varyingfrom one to three thousand feet in depth, is forty miles in length, and forthe Avhole distance presents to the eye the most wonderful chasm in theworld. . Lieut. Doane, who in 1870 succeeded in reaching the bo
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