. Official 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 . as its margin, are densely wooded with a growth ofscrub pine. Above the falls the cliffs are like battlements,with here and there a tall spire. At a little distance, so sym-metrical are the different outflows of basalt
. Official 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 . as its margin, are densely wooded with a growth ofscrub pine. Above the falls the cliffs are like battlements,with here and there a tall spire. At a little distance, so sym-metrical are the different outflows of basalt, the columnarformations appear to be the work of art. The canon is manymiles in length, and is scarcely inferior to that of the Yellow-stone in wild grandeur. The path, after winding picturesquelyalong the sides of Bunsens Peak, leads out into a rollingprairie, interspersed with reed-fringed ponds. From thesummit of any hillock there is seen in every direction the darkforest, which spreads out in terraces to the horizon, its green 36 YELLOWSTONE NATLONAL PARK, mantle perforated in the distance by the protruding peaks ofthe Shoshone and Madison ranges, while still further south-ward the three Tetons tower upward like Cliffs, which lie eastward, are passed, and threemiles from the falls the main road to the Geyser Basins isreached near Swan GRAND rOUJi OF THE PARK. 87 Geaud Tour of the Park. The chief attractions of the grand tour comprise the GoldenGate, the Obsidian Cliffs, the Norris Geyser Basin and RoaringMountain, the Gibbon Paint Pot Basin, the Gibbon RiverCanon and Falls, the Lower, Middle and Upper Geyser Basins,the Yellowstone Lake, the Mud Geysers, Crater Hill, the Fallsand Grand Canon of the Yellowstone River, the views fromMount Washburn, and a visit to Tower Falls and the Falls ofthe Gardiner River. These places of interest are, with unim-portant exceptions, embraced within the round trip of thestages, which run daily from about Jun
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