. 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 . eptiles. One mound is described as looking like a large altarpyre, 125 feet in height, resting on a pyramidal base, the sacrificial victimlying on the top. Two monumental blocks, thirty feet in height, appear tobe surmounted by great recumbent birds. Some of the enormous columnstake the shape of petrifi
. 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 . eptiles. One mound is described as looking like a large altarpyre, 125 feet in height, resting on a pyramidal base, the sacrificial victimlying on the top. Two monumental blocks, thirty feet in height, appear tobe surmounted by great recumbent birds. Some of the enormous columnstake the shape of petrified bears sitting upon their haunches. One tallpillar, almost a perfect obelisk in form, resting upon a massive rectangularpedestal, has a large sandstone boulder adhering to its side, about one-third distant from its base, as if fixed there by magnetic attraction. Thereis a cone-shaped monument, 100 feet high, which poises most deftly uponone of two slender points at its apex an immense boulder. Near by is abulky dome-like formation, which supports upon its summit what appearsto be a mammoth mushroom. Indeed, there is no end to the strange andspectral shapes which are met in these weird labyrinths at every turn. Therocks are of all shades of color, and, in many places, among the winding. SCENES FROM TOURIST LIFE. FAUNA OF THE PARK, 85 passages between them, are tunnels in the ice and snow which afford safehiding places for the mountain sheep. According to Colonel Norris, eagleshover in large numbers over the Hoodoo Mountain, finding subsistenceupon the carcasses of the lambs which they make their prey, by hurling theanimals from the crags upon the jagged rocks hundreds of feet the feasts of these crafty birds are terminated by the appear-ance of the cougar or the sneaking wolverine upon the scene. FAUNA OF THE PARK. Wild animals exist in the Park in large numbers and in great who desire to hunt and fish are permitted to do so upon the con-ditio
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