hite columns draped with steam. Both the geysers and the waterfalls bring the rainbow to them; or, the prismatic springs go to the rainbow for their colors. The cascades have all the excitement

s own attractive setting. Many burst through the roofs of caves; othe

orld of nature or of art. The waters are soft blue. Changing lights tinge the water with iridescence; touch its su

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n its clear depths, and the ultramarine colors, more vivid than the sea, are greatly heightened by constant, gentle vibrations. One can look down into the clear depths and see with perfect dis

s-mostly of silica-deposited by the water. The rims are fittingly beautiful; the lines of internal construction are harmonious. Many spr

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hole, with a black fissured bottom, has at times flamelike colors which create s

spectacular. It has built up for itself a rounded mound, and down the gently curving slopes flow its waters in thousan

mineralized flow. Here lime in solution is quickly precipitated, forming basins and terraces and slopes of

soft and frequently change their form. The silica deposits of the geysers are hard as flint. Without this hardness, the geyser action would be impossible, as the lime and travertine formations would

water-and-steam volcano. There are scores of these eruptive springs in the Yellowstone, and their irregularities form part of their fascination. The place and method of applying the heat, the diameter and shape of the tube, and the point

nd is active at intervals of from one to four days, and Turban plays intermittently for twenty-four hours following Grand. Giantess rests from five to forty days at a time

lasts but from fifteen to thirty seconds. Giant stops work promptly at the end o

of barrels in the large ones. The water is generally thrown vertically, though some of the

gush of each is seldom twice the same. Jewel varies from five feet to tw

and a maximum of two hundred and fifty feet. Excelsior, which sometimes

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on day and night, summer and winter, throughout the years. While many of the geysers are com

rm; its usual interval is seventy minutes. It plays for four minutes and sends its water up from sixty to one hundred and twen

ssue from a vast low mound, and the basin has attractive ornamentation. It spouts an enormous volume of water, sometimes t

y-five feet in height, but it has built up a most imposing crater. It is quiet for

om one to four days and throws a column of steaming water smoothly to a height of two hundred feet. Of all the geysers, Beehive perhaps approaches

ts irregular shore-line has a length of one hundred miles. In places the lake is three hundred feet deep. There are thirty-six other

and cascades. The extensive water-flow abundantly supplies the headwaters of the Missouri, Yellowstone, and Snake Rivers. In Two Ocean Pass, among other places, is a lakelet upon the very summit of the

s well as one to the south of the lake. But my map did not show that the Divide was horseshoe-shaped, and it located the pond on the wrong arm of this

ous as Lake View, from which, perhaps, the best view of Yellowstone Lake is to be had. General Chittenden spent many years in the Park and developed its ex

ls thrilled me more than any other waterfall I ever have seen. The Yellowstone Ca?on may be calle