. Haynes' guide to Yellowstone Park. cinity of the Great Fountain thatshould be visited. The White Dome, Surprise,Firehole Spring, Mushroom, and Buffalo Springare the most prominent. The latter was discovered in1869 by an early exploring party. In describing theirtrip the writer says: In one of these springs we sawthe whitened skeleton of a mountain buffalo that hadprobably fallen in accidentally. No king or saint wasever more magnificently entombed that this monarchof the hills in his sepulchre in the wilderness. Midway Geyser Basin.—Strictly. speaking, this sec-tion constitutes the upper por
. Haynes' guide to Yellowstone Park. cinity of the Great Fountain thatshould be visited. The White Dome, Surprise,Firehole Spring, Mushroom, and Buffalo Springare the most prominent. The latter was discovered in1869 by an early exploring party. In describing theirtrip the writer says: In one of these springs we sawthe whitened skeleton of a mountain buffalo that hadprobably fallen in accidentally. No king or saint wasever more magnificently entombed that this monarchof the hills in his sepulchre in the wilderness. Midway Geyser Basin.—Strictly. speaking, this sec-tion constitutes the upper portion of the Lower Basin,and is about three miles from Fountain group. Beingabout midway between the extremes of the Upper andLower Geyser Basins, this locality is given a distinctdesignation. Excelsior Geyser.—Early explorers in this localitydiscovered, in 1871, says Dr. Peal, on the west bankof Firehole River, an immense pit of rather irregularoutline, 330 feet in length by 200 feet In width at the 50 YELLOWSTONE NATIONAL EXCELSIOR GEYSER. widest part. The water is of a deep blue tint, and isintensely agitated all the time, dense clouds of steamconstantly ascending from it. It is only when thebreeze wafts this aside that the surface of the water,which is fifteen or twenty feet below the level sur-rounding, can be seen. The walls on three sides areperpendicular, clifif-like, and in places overhang, havingbeen worn away on the other. Clii¥ Caldron, withevery indication of a powerful geyser with long inter-vals of eruption, was, however, not known to be a gey-ser until some ten years later. Visited by thousandsannually, this section became known as Hells HalfAcre,- a name it retained until 1881, when discovered TOUR OF THE PARK. 51 by Colonel P. W. Norris to be a geyser of great force,and then named by him Excelsior. Its eruptions in1881 began in the fall, after the tourist season hadclosed; Colonel Norris witnessed upwards of thirtyeruptions, varying from 75 to 250 f
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