. Popular resorts, and how to reach them : combining a brief description of the principal summer retreats in the United States, and the routes of travel leading to them . GIANT GEYbERYellowstone Park, Montana Ter itory Some of the loftiest and most inaccessiblecontinent lift their snow-clad summits in theimmediate vicinity. The scenery is colossal and full of savage grandeur. )IH liKSOUTS, AN I KKACIl •.U:i Following down the river from the foot of the lake nine miles, weTeach Sii/phiir Mountain, Mud Gejiser, Muil Volcano, and the PAowing Carp)II, all ohiect^ of sppaiate interest. CRYST
. Popular resorts, and how to reach them : combining a brief description of the principal summer retreats in the United States, and the routes of travel leading to them . GIANT GEYbERYellowstone Park, Montana Ter itory Some of the loftiest and most inaccessiblecontinent lift their snow-clad summits in theimmediate vicinity. The scenery is colossal and full of savage grandeur. )IH liKSOUTS, AN I KKACIl •.U:i Following down the river from the foot of the lake nine miles, weTeach Sii/phiir Mountain, Mud Gejiser, Muil Volcano, and the PAowing Carp)II, all ohiect^ of sppaiate interest. CRYSTAL FALLS, ON CASCADE CREEK, 129 FEET. Ten miles farther are the two great cataracts, and the GiantCanon of the Yellowstone, perhaps the most stupendous elements 344 POPULAli JIKSOKIS, AND HOW TO KEACH THEM. of scenery in the park. Tlie upper fall is one hundred and fifteen feetin height. Between the two falls, Cascade Creek flows into the Yellow-stone from 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 caiion itself, varyingfrom one to three thousand feet in depth, is forty miles in length, and forthe whole distance presents to the eye the most wonderful chasm in theworld. . Lieut. Doane, who in 1870 succeeded in reaching the b
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