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Title: Sights and scenes in Idaho and Montana for tourists ..
Year: 1892 (1890s)
Authors: Union Pacific railroad company. (from old catalog)
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Publisher: (Chicago, Press of Knight, Leonard & co.)
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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ung far Nabove the water and fall about theneighboring slopes. It is a sight that inspires enthu-siasm in the most phlegmatic, and few can resist thetemptation to give loud expression to their feelings.Unfortunately, this monarch of all geysers has ceasedto erupt, but may be expected to break forth again atany time. A few miles beyond Excelsior is a group of geysersthat is without a rival. Sentinel, Fan, Cascade,Eiverside, Mortar and Grotto, greet one on enteringthe basin, either by quiet steaming or by flashing jets.Giant, Spend id, Castle, Grand, Giantess, Lion, andOld Faithful are but a few of the wonderous foun-tains of the place. The last is most deserving of itsname. Ever since its discovery in 1870, it has notfailed to send up a graceful shower of jets at a regularinterval of sixty-five minutes. Its beauty is ever vary-ing, as wind and sunlight play upon it, and themound about its vent is adorned with delicately-tintedbasins of salmon, pink and yellow, filled with limpid 52 •
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■ -1* MAMMOTH HOT SPRINGS, LIBERTY CAP, YELLOWSTONE NATIONAL PARK.Reached via the Union Pacific System. water whose softness is enticing. It is the geyser ofthe Park and indeed of the world, and many a visitorto geyserland departs without seeing any other ofthe many geysers in action and yet feels more than re-paid for the journey. For beauty of surroundings,the Castle will perhaps be awarded the palm. Itssinter chimney, or cone, is formed of exquisite cauli-flower or coral-like geyserite whose general form makesthe geysers name appropriate. Its eruptions are fre-quent, averaging some thirty hours, when a stream ofhot water is thrown up to a height of seventy-five feetfor some fifteen minutes, followed by the emission ofsteam with a loud roar that can be heard for miles.A few hours after the eruption the tube is again full,and occasional jets of ten to twenty feet are thrownout until the next eruption ensues. GEYSEE WATEKS. The descriptions which have been given of thechief geyser r

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