The Yellowstone national park, historical and descriptive, illustrated with maps, views and portraits . Doane again: Rainbows play around the tremendous fountain, thewaters of which fall about the basin in showers of bril-liants, and then rush steaming down the slopes to theliver. The uniform periodicity of this geyser is its most won-derful and most useful characteristic. It never fails thetourist. With an average interval of sixty-five minutes,it varies but little either way. The combination of con-ditions by which the supply of heat and water, and theform of tube, are so perfectly adapted t
The Yellowstone national park, historical and descriptive, illustrated with maps, views and portraits . Doane again: Rainbows play around the tremendous fountain, thewaters of which fall about the basin in showers of bril-liants, and then rush steaming down the slopes to theliver. The uniform periodicity of this geyser is its most won-derful and most useful characteristic. It never fails thetourist. With an average interval of sixty-five minutes,it varies but little either way. The combination of con-ditions by which the supply of heat and water, and theform of tube, are so perfectly adapted to their work, thateven a chronometer is scarcely more regular in its action, ? Page 29, Yellowstone Expedition of 1870. 800 THE YELLOWSTONE NATIONAL PARK. is one of the miracles of nature. ISTight and day, -winterand summer, seen or unseen, this tremendous fountainhas been pla3dng for untold ages. Only in thousands ofyears can its lifetime be reckoned; for the visible work ithas wrought, and its present infinitely slow rate of prog-ress, fairly appall the inquirer who seeks to learn its Upper Geyser Basin. icTHAPTER XVII. A TOUR OF THE PAllK. Upper Geyser Basin to the Yellowstone Lake. Distance nineteen miles. The route ascends the Fire-hole River to the mouth of Spring Creek, wiiich stream itfollows to the Continental Divide. For seven miles itthen lies on the Pacific slope, after which it descends themountains to the Yellowstone Lake. The drive is one ofthe most pleasant in the Park, and the scenery is pic-turesque and wild. Kepler Cascade ( miles) is a fascinating Doane, w^ho first wrote of it, says:* These pretty little falls, if located on an eastern stream,would be celebrated in history and song; here, amid ob-jects so grand as to strain conception and stagger belief,they were passed without a halt. Half a mile up the Firehole, above the mouth of SpringCreek, is the Lone Star Geyser (i miles). This geyseris conspicuous chiefly for its fi
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