Grand tour guide to 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 new (14761103635)

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Title: Grand tour guide to 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 new wonderland : with twenty-one illustrations, a plan of the upper geyser basin and route maps : also an appendix containing railroad rates, as well as other miscellaneous information
Year: 1889 (1880s)
Authors: W.C. Riley (Firm)
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Publisher: St. Paul, Minn. : W.C. Riley
Contributing Library: Harold B. Lee Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Brigham Young University



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Old Faithful Geyser in Action.b6 GRAND TOUR OF THE PARK, 67 astonishing beauty of which, with respect to the color, depth andtranslucency of the water, and the wonderful delicacy, variety,and richness of the silicious crystallizations, are not to bedescribed. Geysers exist, it is true, in Iceland and New Zea-land ; but there are none to be found in groups so magnificentas here, nor are they likely to be reproduced elsewhere on sogrand a scale. In the following more detailed description of the chiefgeysers and springs of the various basins, the writer has drawnlargely for valuable data upon the report recently publishedby the Department of the Interior of the United States Geo-logical Survey, made under the direction of Dr. F. V. Hayden,in 1878, and especially upon that part of the volume which con-tarns the description, by Dr. A. C. Peale, of the ^ ThermalSprings of the National Park. Old Faithful.—This geyser is one of the most interestingin the Park because of the great regularity