The Yellowstone national park, historical and descriptive, illustrated with maps, views and portraits . only more accessi-ble. No summit in the Park affords a finer prospect. The junction of the main tourist route with the south-ern approach is an important point in the Park lunch station is located here and also a patrol stationfor government troops. It is here that the tourist boatleaves the west shore and from this point there is a choiceof routes to the lake hotel at the outlet either across thelake by boat or by the road over the hills. The only attractions on the road are a fe
The Yellowstone national park, historical and descriptive, illustrated with maps, views and portraits . only more accessi-ble. No summit in the Park affords a finer prospect. The junction of the main tourist route with the south-ern approach is an important point in the Park lunch station is located here and also a patrol stationfor government troops. It is here that the tourist boatleaves the west shore and from this point there is a choiceof routes to the lake hotel at the outlet either across thelake by boat or by the road over the hills. The only attractions on the road are a few fine views ofthe lake, and the Natural Bridge (11 miles) over a smallstream that empties^into the lake. This feature consists time (1903) it has been ascended by white men only twice;by Messrs. N. P. Langford and James Stevenson in 1872, andby Messrs. William Owen, Frank S. Spalding, John Shive,and Frank Peterson in 1898. These explorers found, on apoint a little lower ihan the main summit, a rude shelter ofgranite slabs, evidently placed there by human hands, one canonly conjecture how long Thunderstorm on Yellowstone Lake. A TOUR OF THE PARK. 309 of an arch about forty feet high and thirty feet span. AsBeen from below, it is of very symmetrical outline. The boat ride across the lake is one of the delightfulfeatures of the tour. It is a welcome relief from the longcoach rides and is in itself a rare experience, for nowheicelse in the ordinary routes of travel over the globe is thetourist likely to ride on a body of water of similar extent lo-cated a mile and a half above the level of the sea. Fromnear the center of the lake the view is surpassingly the south and southwest the long arms of the lake pen-etrate the dark forest-clad hills, which are but steppingBtones to the lofty mountains behind them. Far beyondthese may again be seen the familiar forms of the along the eastern shore stand the serried peaks of theAbsaroka Range, the boundary which natu
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