. 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 land of wonders ... also an appendix containing railroad lines and rates, as well as other miscellaneous information . ion. Another reason also isfound in the fact that the surface of the spring is constantly agitated,which is rarely or never the case with a true geyser. Still, in the past itmay have been a geyser and had regular eruptions. About twenty rods distant northward from the Giants Caldron is anotherlarge boil
. 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 land of wonders ... also an appendix containing railroad lines and rates, as well as other miscellaneous information . ion. Another reason also isfound in the fact that the surface of the spring is constantly agitated,which is rarely or never the case with a true geyser. Still, in the past itmay have been a geyser and had regular eruptions. About twenty rods distant northward from the Giants Caldron is anotherlarge boiling spring of crystalline water, called the Grotto, sending onvolumes of sulphurous vapor. It is very curious in its operation, eructat-ing at intervals with a loud belch, filling its basin to the brim, itspulsations shaking the ground. It then suddenly draws the water inagain with a tremendous gurgle, repeating the process ad opening is three feet high, eight feet wide and about twenty feet entrance is somewhat like a Gothic arch, and the walls within andwithout are stained in various shades of bright green by the mineral con-stituents of the water. Near this point in 1877 the Nez Perce Indianscrossed the river, hotly pursued by the gallant Howard and his THE YELLOWSTONE LAKE. 57 It has since been known as the Nez Perce ford. Remains of the breast-works behind which Chief Joseph entrenched himself for a time are stillvisible. The Yellowstone Lake.—This large and beautiful sheet of waterlies in the lap of snow-capped mountains at an elevation of 7,788 feet abovethe sea. Its peculiar shape, rudely representing that of the opened palmof the right hand, particularly when looked down upon from an adjacentheight, has fixed the name of the Thumb and Fingers upon the bays, separ-ated by long and narrow peninsulas, which indent its southern and westernsides. Its dimensions are about twenty miles north and south and fifteen milesacross the thumb and pa
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