. Report of explorations in Colorado and Utah during the summer of 1889 : with an account of the fishes found in each of the river basins examined . of a mile apart. The upper falls, called Undine Falls, isvertical for about 30 feet, then with two additional leaps of about 20 and 10 feet(see plate XVI). The lower fall is vertical and about 50 feet high. Below this fallthe stream flows through a highly picturesque canon joining the Gardiner River, aboveMammoth Hot Springs. In this canon trout are abundant. Lupine Creek is a small tributary of Lava Creek entering it above the falls. Thisstream h
. Report of explorations in Colorado and Utah during the summer of 1889 : with an account of the fishes found in each of the river basins examined . of a mile apart. The upper falls, called Undine Falls, isvertical for about 30 feet, then with two additional leaps of about 20 and 10 feet(see plate XVI). The lower fall is vertical and about 50 feet high. Below this fallthe stream flows through a highly picturesque canon joining the Gardiner River, aboveMammoth Hot Springs. In this canon trout are abundant. Lupine Creek is a small tributary of Lava Creek entering it above the falls. Thisstream has a high cascade (Wraith Fall), about 100 feet high. Notwithstanding the barrier offered by Undine Falls, it is said, on good author-ity, that small trout have been seen in Lupine Creek below Wraith Fall (ElwoodHofer) and trout have been taken in Lava Creek above the falls. This raises thequestion as to how they came there. Our attention was called by Mr. Hofer, to theway in which trout may have crossed the Divide from Black-tail Deer Creek to LavaCreek. Bull. U. S. F. C 1889.—(To face page 56.) Jordan. Yellowstone Explorations. Plate EXPLORATIONS IN YELLOWSTONE NATIONAL PARK. 57 The easternmost tributary of Lava Creek is a grassy slough with very little narrow stream in its midst is nearly dry in summer. The same conditions exteudto the summit of the Divide, which rises to the height of about 3 feet above a smallpond with which the slough begins. The Divide is a rod or two across at its lowestpart near the pond. On the east side of it, but lower down, is a similar pond withgrassy surroundings, which tlows into Black tail Deer Creek. Into both these depres-sions considerable springs flow, especially into the one on the west. The grassy slough first named, tributary to the Lupine Creek, has very little slopefor a mile or more. Should its waters rise in spring so that the almost dry pond wouldbe 3 feet in depth, this pond would overflow on both sides, and a c
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