. The calumet of the Coteau, and other poetical legends of the border. portion of which, as shown in the illus-tration, is still standing, submerged and semi-fossilized by depositsfrom the mineral waters of the main active Mammoth Hot Springs,which rise in inimitably beautiful scollop-bordered pools and bril-liantly-tinted pearly-white terraces directly fronting, and to an eleva-tion greater than the balcony of the Headquarters. Thence throughthe shifting clouds of vapor ever escaping from these unique fountains,the active, the dying, the dead cedar-fringed and crumbling, then thedark pine and
. The calumet of the Coteau, and other poetical legends of the border. portion of which, as shown in the illus-tration, is still standing, submerged and semi-fossilized by depositsfrom the mineral waters of the main active Mammoth Hot Springs,which rise in inimitably beautiful scollop-bordered pools and bril-liantly-tinted pearly-white terraces directly fronting, and to an eleva-tion greater than the balcony of the Headquarters. Thence throughthe shifting clouds of vapor ever escaping from these unique fountains,the active, the dying, the dead cedar-fringed and crumbling, then thedark pine and balsam-hidden pools and terraces rise successively asthey recede to the most ancient and once powerful of the now ex-tinct craters or cones upon the summit of the Terrace Mountain,which much of the year presents an outline of snow amid the beneath this building, to the right, are seen the famous GUIDE-BOOK OF THE PARK. 245 Liberty-Cap crumbling cone of an extinct pulsating geyser, 45 feethigh, the Devils Thumb, somewhat smaller, numerous ragged-edged. MAMMOTH HOT SrRINGS. pits of ancient pools, nearly as deep, the sinks of two cold-watercreeks, the McCartney buildings upon, and the grassy slopes andcraggy summits of the Sepulchre Mountain above them. To the left the clear-cut sky-line of the White Cliffs, and eroded 21* 246 GUIDE-BOOK OF THE PARK. gorge of the West Gardiner just to the right, the pine-clad cone ofBunsens Peak to its left, the yawning canon and basaltic cliffs of theMiddle Gardiner, and still farther to the left the nearly vertical wallsand battlements above the double falls, and beyond them the silverythread of the Cascades of the East Gardiner, with the Mount Stephensrange in the background, are all in clear and undisturbed view. Tothe rear the descent is continuous and often terraced or precipitousfor fully a mile to the Main Gardiner, and fine trout-fishing from theshelly geyserite roof of a subterranean river, to where its seethingwaters, in
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