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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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oached. On either side of the road from this point onward, especiallyon the left bank of the river, are numerous other springs, andan occasional small geyser. But the tourist, unless he have anabundance of time at his disposal, will scarcely linger to in-spect them. About the centre of the Middle Geyser Basingroup, there is a sharp bend of the river to the east as it comesfrom the wooded canon above. Half a mile beyond thispoint a hot flood from an extensive system of sprmgs onRabbit Branch is poured into the stream, the banks of whichall along its course, until the Upper Geyser Basin is reached,five miles further, are pitted with springs, while the inclosinghills are flecked-with fleecy clouds of steam which rise out ofthe forest. Indeed, the river in this part of its career receivesso much hot water that the visitor is likely to think the iiaiiicFirehole has been aptly bestowed in^.n it. V: J&Vf*»ii^ Grvsef MAP OF A PART OF THE UPPER GEYSER BASIN, SHOWING THE PRINGIPAL GEYSERS.
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GRAND TOUR OF I HE PARK. 63 THE UPPER GEYSER BASIN. The principal geysers of the Park, which are also the mostpowerful in the world, are in this Basin, which extends fromOld Faithful down the main Firehole River, to a point justbelow the mouth of the Little Firehole River, and along IronSpring Creek, a branch of the last-named stream. The moreimportant springs and geysers are on the main river. As theFirehole and Little Firehole Rivers converge as they flownorthward, the Basin is almost triangular in shape. The extentof the Basin is about four square miles ; but the chief geysersare situated within an area of perhaps half a mile, along thecourse of the Firehole, on either side of the stream. Thisflows from southeast to northwest through the Basin, taking amore northerly course, however, after the waters of Iron SpringCreek and the Little Firehole unite with it. The volume ofthe Firehole is sometimes greatly increased, just after theeruption of some of the larger geysers, and the tempe

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