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Title: Marvels of the new West : a vivid portrayal of the stupendous marvels in the vast wonderland west of the Missouri River : comprising marvels of nature, marvels of race, marvels of enterprise, marvels of mining, marvels of stock-raising, and marvels of agriculture, graphically and truthfully described
Year: 1887 (1880s)
Authors: Thayer, William Makepeace, 1820-1898
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Publisher: Norwich, Conn. : Henry Bill Pub. Co.
Contributing Library: Harold B. Lee Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Brigham Young University

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n texture and coloring, yet are firm and solid beneath thetread. . . . Those who have seen the stage representations ofAladdins Cave and the Home of the Dragon-Fly, as produced in a first-class the-atre, can form anidea of the won-derful coloring,but not of the in-tricate frost-workof this fairy-likeyet solid mound ofrock, growing upamid clouds ofsteam and showersof boiling water.One instinctivelytouches the hotledges with hishands, and soundswith a stick thedepths of the cavi-ties in the slope,in utter doubt inthe evidence of hisown eyes. Thebeauty of the scenetakes away onesbreath. It is over-powering, tran-scending the vis-ions of the Mos-lems Paradise. Dr. Haydenwrote : With lit-tle or no prelimi-nary warning, itshot up a column of water about six feet in diameter to the height ofone hundred to one hundred and fifty feet, and by a succession ofimpulses seemed to hold it up steadily for the space of fifteen min-utes, the great mass of the water falling directly back into the basin.
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On the Line of U. P. Railroad. BEE HIVE GEYSER. MARVELS OF NATURE. 77 and flowing over the edges and down the sides in large streams.When the action ceases, the water recedes beyond sight, and nothingis heard but the occasional escape of steam until another exhibitionoccurs. This is one of the most accommodating geysers in the basin,and during our stay played once an hour quite regularly. Bee Hive Geyser was so named because of the resemblanceof its cone to an old-fashioned straw beehive. Its cone is from threeto five feet in height, and five feet in diameter at its base. A mem-ber of the survey party says of it : Not one of our company sup-posed that it was a geyser, and among so many wonders it had almostescaped notice. While we were at breakfast, upon the morning ofour departure, a column of water, entirely filling the crater, shot fromit, which, by accurate triangular measurement, we found to be twohundred and nineteen feet in height. The stream did not deflectmore than four or fi

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