. 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 land of wonders ... also an appendix containing railroad lines and rates, as well as other miscellaneous information . circular basin,bounded by a low hill, bare on the sides and wooded at the look down into this basin from the top of the hill is like lookinginto a volcanic crater. All through it there are scattered fumaroles, sol-fatari and mud springs, some of the latter showing blue and violet
. 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 land of wonders ... also an appendix containing railroad lines and rates, as well as other miscellaneous information . circular basin,bounded by a low hill, bare on the sides and wooded at the look down into this basin from the top of the hill is like lookinginto a volcanic crater. All through it there are scattered fumaroles, sol-fatari and mud springs, some of the latter showing blue and violet into the valley of Alum Creek, and skirting this stream for acouple of miles, the road rather abruptly descends to Sage Creek, the watersof which are sweet and pure. Here, in a mountain-guarded dell, surroundedby high bluffs, covered with a wiry growth of artemisia, is an excellentcamping place. Five miles beyond this point the roads part, a guide boarddenoting that that to the northward (the continuation of Route No. IV)leads to the Falls and Canon of the Yellowstone, while the other (RouteNo. Ill) conducts to the lake. The stretch between Sage Creek and theforks of the road is over a rolling sage-bush and bunch-grass area, whichis apt to be inconveniently dusty and CRATER HILLS, MUD GEYSER, GIANTS CALDRON AND HOT SPRINGSON YELLOWSTONE LAKE. CFATER HILLS OR SULPHUR MOUNTAIN. 67 Taking the northern direction, over the grassy hills, at the distance of onemile and a half, a point of great interest is reached. This is Crater Hills.—These hills, sometimes known as Sulphur Mountain,consist of a group of detached hills or buttes, each about 150 feet in height,composed of the usual calcareous matter, largely impregnated with sulphurand iron. There are numerous sulphur springs at the foot of these hillocks,and also spouting from the pine-fringed plateau of a few acres in extent imme-diately about them. The deposits of sulphur are very pure, and there are greathe
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