. The Northern Pacific Railroad : the Yellowstone Park route to Puget Sound and Alaska . ferred to and from Mammoth Springs and other hotelswithin the reservation. GOLDEN GATE, a deep, narrow gorge between BunsenPeak and Terrace Mountain, is the first point of specialinterest reached. While only four miles distant from the hotel at the springs, it is i,ooo feet higher, and is the onlyexit from the mountain-environed valley of the GardinerRiver to the Geyser Basins, Lake and Canon farther roadway through this pass is nearly a mile in length,and, just before it leaves the cool shade of
. The Northern Pacific Railroad : the Yellowstone Park route to Puget Sound and Alaska . ferred to and from Mammoth Springs and other hotelswithin the reservation. GOLDEN GATE, a deep, narrow gorge between BunsenPeak and Terrace Mountain, is the first point of specialinterest reached. While only four miles distant from the hotel at the springs, it is i,ooo feet higher, and is the onlyexit from the mountain-environed valley of the GardinerRiver to the Geyser Basins, Lake and Canon farther roadway through this pass is nearly a mile in length,and, just before it leaves the cool shade of the overhangingcliffs for the open level of Swan Lake Basin, passes RusticFalls — a pretty little cascade formed by the West Branchof the Gardiner. OBSIDIAN CLIFF. A bold escarpment of volcanic glassarranged in rough columns, pentagonal in form, and of aglistening black, hangs high above the stage road midwaybetween Mammoth Springs and Norris, While, to be sure,an object of no small curiosity and speculation, its chiefinterest lies in the fact that it is the sole considerable out-. GlbBON CANON ROAD. cropping of obsidiaii (or mineral glass) known. The placidlittle sheet of water to the right of the roadway, fringed withmeadow grass and dotted with pond lilies, is the home of asmall colony of beavers, from which fact it derives itsname — Beaver Lake. NORRIS GEYSER BASIN is next reached, and luncheonis served. This is the oldest and among the most elevated(7,527 feet) of the thermal basins of the Park. Its hotsprings, which are numerous, are in many instances curiouslyand beautifully formed and highly interesting; but its gey-sers (with, perhaps, two or three exceptions) possess less ofthe awfully grand eruptive power which characterize mostof the geysers of the Firehole Valley. Approached on a cool day the region about Norris suggests a great man-ufacturing center — so much vapor is seen rising above thebordering tree-tops. GIBBON CANON AND FALLS. Continuing southwardthe
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