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 land of wonders also an (14735407226)

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Title: 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 land of wonders ... also an appendix containing railroad lines and rates, as well as other miscellaneous information
Year: 1883 (1880s)
Authors: Winser, Henry Jacob, 1823-1896
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Publisher: New York : G.P. Putnam's Sons
Contributing Library: Harold B. Lee Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Brigham Young University



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GIANT GEYSER IN ACTION. THE GRAND GEYSER. 49 summit of which is forty-three feet above the level of the river. The Lionessand Cubs lie close together, and are sometimes in action at the same time,making a beautiful display, although they do not send up a very highcolumn of water. The several craters are highly ornamented with pearl-likebeads of geyserite. The Lion, the most powerful of the four geysers, i3 dis-tant fifty feet from the others, from which it i3 separated by a slight depres-sion. It has an irregular, flat-topped cone, four feet in height, with an orificeeighteen inches by two and one-half feet, the water in which is always inviolent commotion. The outside of the crater i3 covered with white beadedgeyserite, and the throat of the orifice is lined with yellow, pearly-toppedbead-like masses. During eruption the column of water reaches a heightof about seventy-five feet. Saw Mill Geyser*—This is a very active little geyser, on the rightside of the river, not far distant fr