. The Northern Pacific Railroad : the Yellowstone Park route to Puget Sound and Alaska . 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 visitor journeys through a stretch of cool forest, descendsa long, sloping hill, and, crossing Elk Park, enters GibbonCanon—a rocky defile four miles in length, whose cliffs seemreluctant to open wide eno
. The Northern Pacific Railroad : the Yellowstone Park route to Puget Sound and Alaska . 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 visitor journeys through a stretch of cool forest, descendsa long, sloping hill, and, crossing Elk Park, enters GibbonCanon—a rocky defile four miles in length, whose cliffs seemreluctant to open wide enough to allow both the stage roadand the clear waters of Gibbon River a passage. The wildgrandeur of this rugged chasm is difficult of adequateportrayal. On this side precipitous bluffs frown down uponthe passer-by ; on that, a dense growth of pines clothes thesteep mountain-side with dark-green drapery. Here, ahissing steam-vent fills the air with sulphurous vapors ;there, a fiercely boiling caldron pours its scalding overflowacross the roadway, beneath the very feet of the stage. GLIMPSE OF SHOSHONE LAKE. horses, and, as a fitting denoueme^it (at the caiions exit), thefoam-flecked river, tossed and fretted by tortuous windings,obstructing bowlders and rocky rapids, plunges into a gorgewith a fall of a hundred feet and more, and, deflectingsharply, is lost to view, THE GEYSERS. Next come the geysers of the FireholeV^alley. These are distributed along either bank of theFirehole (Upper Madison) River for a distance of ten miles,being grouped in three districts or basins, known as theLower, Midway and Upper Basins. At the large, new hotelnear the Fountain Geyser (Lower Basin) stages halt for thenight, and the displays of the Fountain and the odd bubblingof the near-by Paint Pots absorbs general attention. Thehot springs of this locality number nearly seven hundred—exclusive of seventeen geysers. L? p^, THE MIDWAY BASIN, five miles farther south, boaststhe largest geyser ever
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