The Yosemite, Alaska, and the Yellowstone . Fig. 46. Tunnel on the Grand River Canon. Glenwood. 67 expected to clo on the following day. In the shortest time all were busily-sporting in the open air natatorium, shown in Fig. 47, where the water,surcharged with soda, bubbles up at a temperature of 120 deg. and at therate of 2000 gallons per minute. The novelty of bathing in a warm springand being able to look up at the snow-capped mountains on every side, willnot soon be forgotten, nor will the chilling effects of the fountain of springwater shown in the picture. The change from the warm water
The Yosemite, Alaska, and the Yellowstone . Fig. 46. Tunnel on the Grand River Canon. Glenwood. 67 expected to clo on the following day. In the shortest time all were busily-sporting in the open air natatorium, shown in Fig. 47, where the water,surcharged with soda, bubbles up at a temperature of 120 deg. and at therate of 2000 gallons per minute. The novelty of bathing in a warm springand being able to look up at the snow-capped mountains on every side, willnot soon be forgotten, nor will the chilling effects of the fountain of springwater shown in the picture. The change from the warm water to the coldwas varied in its effect on the bathers. The men gave a stolid sort of agrunt and swam away, but whenever there was a shrill feminine shriekwe knew one of the ladies had swum into this Fig. 47. Glenwood Springs. In the afternoon the party was on its westward way, and soon wereached a country so utterly different that it seemed almost incredible thatonly so short a distance separated it from the rocks of the Royal flat plains, beautiful with wild flowers of every hue, are surrounded bygreat soda buttes of strange and fantastic formation. Now, by a stream,these are comparatively low and riddled with the holes of wild birds, andagain they rise on high in the exact shape of a mighty palace of theancient Aztecs, or in the various towers of a great castle. As we passedone little village we saw a train of galloping horses, and behind themcantered a real cowboy with broad sombrero, and a lariat in his hand. 68 TJie Yosemite, Alaska, and the Yellowstone. The plain before him, yellow with the blooming sage, its only plant, wasbounded by a line of lofty buttes like the wall of a city; where the sunstruck them they were pale yellow, while the shadows on the distant on
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