id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt 46911 Richardson, James (Geologist) Wonders of the Yellowstone .txt text/plain 54987 2514 71 [Illustration: THE GREAT GEYSER BASIN OF THE UPPER YELLOWSTONE.] Hot Springs of Gardiner's River--Third CaƱon--Rapids--Valley Yellowstone--Wind River Mountains--Valley of Upper Ocean River"--A Companion lost--Lakes and Springs--Hot hot springs and geysers, whose description makes up so large a portion which is called on the maps Snowy Mountains, forms the great water-shed by the Yellowstone River, is 10,629 feet above tide-water, while the South of the hot springs is a round dome-like mountain, rising 2,100 springs, the water rising and falling in their orifices with great springs of clear hot water, from ten to fifty feet in diameter, their Of the beautiful transparency of the springs above described, Dr. Hayden says: "So clear was the water that the smallest object could Lake, a beautiful sheet of water set like a gem among the mountains, the geyser-basin, some ten miles below the lake, the river roars The water in the spring of the geyser is of a blue color and in ./cache/46911.txt ./txt/46911.txt