. Grand tour guide to 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 new wonderland : with twenty-one illustrations, a plan of the upper geyser basin and route maps : also an appendix containing railroad rates, as well as other miscellaneous information . ss, the divide which separates the waters of Gardiner River,flowing into the Yellowstone, from those of the Gibbon,which are tributary to the Madison River. This ridge sur-mounted, the first active geysers come sudde
. Grand tour guide to 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 new wonderland : with twenty-one illustrations, a plan of the upper geyser basin and route maps : also an appendix containing railroad rates, as well as other miscellaneous information . ss, the divide which separates the waters of Gardiner River,flowing into the Yellowstone, from those of the Gibbon,which are tributary to the Madison River. This ridge sur-mounted, the first active geysers come suddenly into view. Norris Geyser Basin.—This Basin is doubtless the oldestand highest in the Park, revealing much that is wonderful andattractive. It is apt to astonish and bewilder the neophyte inWonderland, by its spouting geysers, clouds of vapor and over-powering odors of sulphur, it being the first fire-hole areaencountered on entering the Park. The whole vast Basin is acollection of hot springs and pools varying greatly in color,some being jet black, some white as driven snow on mountainheight, and others as sulphurous a yellow as Lucifer coulddesire. There are numerous fumaroles and solfatari, besides frying-pans * which sputter and sizzle violently. The earthrumbles and shakes, and the air is hot, and reeks withunpleasant odors. Where the water does not boil over the. a RAND TOUR OF THE PARK. 48 Cftist, it seethes and gurgles beneath, rendering great cautionnecessary in getting about on the treacherous surface. Num-bers of the steam vents are adorned with beautiful sulphurcrystals, and masses of this material are heaped in every direc-tion. Some of the springs are ^paint pots, which boil inces-santly their pasty clay of divers colors, with noisy the geysers in the plateau toward the southwest arethe * Constant, the Twins and the Triplets, which seemto be in perpetual action, obscuring the sun*s rays with theirsteam ; and on the highest point of the ridge
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