The Yellowstone national park, historical and descriptive, illustrated with maps, views and portraits . ent back down the river to re-examine alocality where they thought they had found some fair pros-pects. They soon returned, however, unsuccessful. Themain party under DeLacy ascended the hills to the west ofthe river to seek a more practicable route. They soonreached the summit of the plateau where they discoveredwhat are now Hering and Beula Lakes, and noted theirdivergent drainage. Thence they passed north over Pitch-stone Plateau until they struck the valley of Moose descended
The Yellowstone national park, historical and descriptive, illustrated with maps, views and portraits . ent back down the river to re-examine alocality where they thought they had found some fair pros-pects. They soon returned, however, unsuccessful. Themain party under DeLacy ascended the hills to the west ofthe river to seek a more practicable route. They soonreached the summit of the plateau where they discoveredwhat are now Hering and Beula Lakes, and noted theirdivergent drainage. Thence they passed north over Pitch-stone Plateau until they struck the valley of Moose descended this stream for a few miles and came to alarge lake, which they supposed to be tributary to eitherthe Madison or the Yellowstone Elvers. To their greatsurprise they found, upon rounding its southern point,that it drained south into the Snake. This is what is nowcalled Shoshone Lake. From the outlet of the lake, DeLacy sent a man downstream to examine the river. This reconnaissance resultedin the discover) of Lewds Lake and the hot springs basinthere. When DeLacy route, he followed along. •^ Snow in the Park Forests, Jcjne 13, 1899. GOLD IN MONTANA. 65 the east shore of the lake to its northern extremity, andthen ascended the beautiful open valley of DeLacy crossed the Continental Divide at the head of the valley,and camped on the evening of September 8th some milesbeyond the Divide toward the Firehole Eiver. The nextmorning, September 9, 18G3, he came upon the consider-able stream of hot water wliich flows down a mountainravine into the Lower Geyser Basin close by the GreatFountain Geyser. The reader will learn with some amaze-ment that the party thought little enough of this wonder-ful locality to pass directly through it without halt or per-ceptible delay. Before the camping hour of the afternoonhad arrived, they were many miles away at the junction ofthe Gibbon and Firehole Elvers. The other section of the party, which had gone do^^Ti theSnake from its
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