. Marvelous works of nature and art : together with useful and interesting information for all, with plates of illustration. en a luminous circleradiant with all the colors of the prism, andresembling the halo of glory represented inpaintings as encircling the head of they had previously witnessed seemedtame in comparison with the perfect grandeurand beauty of this display. Two of theseeruptions occurred during the twenty-twohours they remained in the valley. Thisgeyserthey named the Giantess. A hundred yards distant from the Giantesswas a silicious cone, very symmetrical, butslig
. Marvelous works of nature and art : together with useful and interesting information for all, with plates of illustration. en a luminous circleradiant with all the colors of the prism, andresembling the halo of glory represented inpaintings as encircling the head of they had previously witnessed seemedtame in comparison with the perfect grandeurand beauty of this display. Two of theseeruptions occurred during the twenty-twohours they remained in the valley. Thisgeyserthey named the Giantess. A hundred yards distant from the Giantesswas a silicious cone, very symmetrical, butslightly corrugated upon its exterior surface,three feet in height and five feet in diameterat its base, and having an oval orifice twenty-four by thirty-six and one-half inches indiameter, with scolloped edges. Not one oftheir company supj30sed it was a geyser; andamong so many wonders it had almost escapednotice. While they were at breakfast on themorning of their departure, a column of waterentirely filling the crater shot from it, whichby accurate triangular measurement, theyfound to be two hundred and nineteen feet in. THE GIANTESS GEYSER. WONDERS OF THE WILDERNESS, &C. 121 height. The stream did not deflect more thanfour or five degrees from a vertical line, andthe eruption lasted eighteen minutes. Theynamed it the Bee Hive. How many more geysers there are in thislocality it would he impossible to waning stores admonished them of thenecessity for a hurried departure, and theyreluctantly left this remarkable region lessthan half explored. In this basin, which isabout two miles in length and one mile inwidth, more than a thousand pipes or wellsrise to the surface, varying in diameter fromtwo to one hundred and twenty feet, thewater in which varies in temperature from140 degrees to the boiling point, upwards ofa hundred of which give evidence, by thecalcareous and silicious deposits surroundingthem, that they are as likely to be as any theysaw in action. The sid
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