. The Pacific tourist : Williams' illustrated trans-continental guide of travel, from the Atlantic to the Pacific Ocean : containing full descriptions of railroad routes across the continent, all pleasure resorts and places of most noted scenery in the far West, also of all cities, towns, villages, Forts, springs, lakes, mountains, routes of summer travel, best localities for hunting, fishing, sporting, and enjoyment, with all needful information for the pleasure traveler, miner, settler, or business man : a complete traveler's guide of the Union and Central Pacific Railroads and all poin
. The Pacific tourist : Williams' illustrated trans-continental guide of travel, from the Atlantic to the Pacific Ocean : containing full descriptions of railroad routes across the continent, all pleasure resorts and places of most noted scenery in the far West, also of all cities, towns, villages, Forts, springs, lakes, mountains, routes of summer travel, best localities for hunting, fishing, sporting, and enjoyment, with all needful information for the pleasure traveler, miner, settler, or business man : a complete traveler's guide of the Union and Central Pacific Railroads and all points of business or pleasure travel to California, Colorado, Nebraska, Wyoming, Utah, Nevada, Montana, the mines and mining of the territories, the lands of the Pacific Coast, the wonders of the Rocky Mountains, the scenery of the Sierra Nevadas, the Colorado mountains, the big trees, the geysers, the Yosemite, and the Yellowstone . rs of the region. The Mammoth White Mountain HotSprings,—This group of springs, is one of themost remarkable within the limits of the Na-tional Park, and as far as is known, has not itsequal in grandeur in the world. The Te TarataSpring of New Zealand, is the nearest approachto it in appearance, but the formation is ofa different character; the Gardiners RiverSprings depositing calcareous material, whilethat in New Zealand is siliceous, like the depositsin the geyser region of Iceland, and in our owngeyser basins, at the head of the Madison. Theexploring party of 1870, did not discover thesesprings, and the Hayden Exploring Expeditionof 1871, was the first organized party that evervisited them. Leaving the Yellowstone, we keep some 300or 400 feet above the level of the river for acouple of miles, passing several small lakes,when we descend to the bank of GardinersRiver, on the eastern side of which is a highbluff of cretaceous sandstones capped with a EME <P&GIFm TQmBlMW. 281. MTS. HAYDEN layer of volcanic rock. On the edge of thestream, we pass
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