What to see in America . eded for walkingabout the geyser basins. The central part of the park is a broad volcanic plateauabout 8000 feet above sea level. Roundabout are mountainranges whosepeaks and ridgesrise from 2000 to4000 feet abovethe the park aremore geysersthan are foundin all the rest ofthe world, danc-ing and singingamid thousandsof boiling springs,whose basins arearrayed in gor-geous colors like gigantic flowers. Here too are hot paintpots and mud volcanoes, the contents of which are ofevery color and consistency, and which plash and heaveand roar in bewildering abund
What to see in America . eded for walkingabout the geyser basins. The central part of the park is a broad volcanic plateauabout 8000 feet above sea level. Roundabout are mountainranges whosepeaks and ridgesrise from 2000 to4000 feet abovethe the park aremore geysersthan are foundin all the rest ofthe world, danc-ing and singingamid thousandsof boiling springs,whose basins arearrayed in gor-geous colors like gigantic flowers. Here too are hot paintpots and mud volcanoes, the contents of which are ofevery color and consistency, and which plash and heaveand roar in bewildering abundance. You see Nature atwork cooking whole mountains, boiling and steaming flintyrocks to smooth paste and mush — yellow, brown, red,pink, lavender, gray, and creamy — the most beautiful mudin the world. Some of the spring basins hold limpid palegreen or azure water, but in others is scalding muck whichis tossed up five, ten, and even thirty feet in sticky rank-smelling masses, with gasping, belching, thudding Grotto Geyser © Haynes 380 What to See in America Over four thousand hot springs have been counted and ahundred geysers. The whole region hisses and bubbles andsteams. Some of the larger geysers give tremendous ex-hibitions of energy. When in action they throb, and boomas if thunderstorms were at their roots, while the columnof hot water stands rigid and erect, dissolving at the top intomist and spray. The great Excelsior Geyser, which is un-equaled in size the world over, throws forth at irregularintervals to an impressive height a column of water fullysixty feet in diameter. The adjacent Firehole River isordinarily about one hundred yards wide and three feetdeep, but when the geyser is in eruption the volume of theri\er is doubled and it is too hot and rapid to be of the geysers spout every few minutes, others atintervals of hours or days, and a few at irregular intervalsof weeks. The Giant Geyser, in many respects the finest ofall, spouts at in
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