Travels in Europe and America . brisk trot over smooth roads,constructed by United States engineers, throughthe valley of the Gardiner River. The ride is exhilarating and the scenery impos-ing. To the east are the majestic domes of theYellowstone range. Six miles of delightful drivingbring us to a turn in the road, which reveals a mostcurious feature of the park. Liberty Cap, aptly termed from its shape, is thecone of an extinct geyser, and it stands near thehotel. It is forty-five feet high and twenty feet atthe base, composed of over-lapping layers ofsediment. These lime mausoleums of old ge
Travels in Europe and America . brisk trot over smooth roads,constructed by United States engineers, throughthe valley of the Gardiner River. The ride is exhilarating and the scenery impos-ing. To the east are the majestic domes of theYellowstone range. Six miles of delightful drivingbring us to a turn in the road, which reveals a mostcurious feature of the park. Liberty Cap, aptly termed from its shape, is thecone of an extinct geyser, and it stands near thehotel. It is forty-five feet high and twenty feet atthe base, composed of over-lapping layers ofsediment. These lime mausoleums of old geysershowever, are gradually crumbling into dust. Although these Mammoth Hot Springs are themost important of the kind now active in theworld, they are insignificant as compared withthose which built up Terrace Mountain and numer-ous cliffs along the Yellowstone. These springs aresituated in a small valley one thousand feet abovethe Gardiner River. At various elevations on theterraces, hot water impregnated mainly with calcari-. TRAVELS. 351 ous matter from below, issues in pulsating waves,overflows the basins, and the deposits under favor-able circumstances are one-sixteenth of an inch infour days or an inch every sixty-four days. Manyof the basins have exquisitely fretted rims; thecolors of their wavy filmlike borders are often verybeautiful. It is not diflicult to climb to the top of the ter-races, and often the shoes are well soaked in hotwater which gently pours from the upper reservoirsinto tiers of basins below, repeating the process tillthe bottom of the hill is reached, when the waterflows into the Gardiner River. Here is Pulpit Basin. * Trees have tongues,Kooks in the running brooks, sermons in stones, andgood in everything. Another view is called Crystal Forests. Thesprings on the top of the hill are of all sizes up toforty feet in diameter. The water is turquoise blue,and its crystal clearness is indescribable. The rimsand sides are fretted with delicate frost work a
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