. 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 . ?/-*■* - BEE HIVE GEYSER IN ACTION. CASTLE AND OBLONG GEYSERS. 51 is silvery or leaden gray in color. The orifice of the geyser tube on the sum-mit of the cone is three feet in diameter, nearly circular, and lined withlarge nodules of a dull orange color. Steam is always escaping from theorifice and jet
. 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 . ?/-*■* - BEE HIVE GEYSER IN ACTION. CASTLE AND OBLONG GEYSERS. 51 is silvery or leaden gray in color. The orifice of the geyser tube on the sum-mit of the cone is three feet in diameter, nearly circular, and lined withlarge nodules of a dull orange color. Steam is always escaping from theorifice and jets of water occasionally spurt above it in the intervals betweenthe eruptions. This geyser usually shoots out a column of water, fromthirty to fifty feet in height, several times each day, and throws up smallerjets every few minutes. It occasionally, however, husbands its strength fora grand effort, at which times it forces up a beautiful fountain to an altitudeof 100 feet or more, accompanied by a tremendous rush of steam. Beforeeach eruption deafening sounds are heard far down the throat of the crater,and masses of water are thrown out. After a short period of quiet, as ifgathering force for a new attempt, a fearful roaring, audible for miles distant,takes place, and the ground tremb
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