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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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ounded by steepcliffs eight hundred feet high. The masses of water seem to breakinto fleecy columns and sheets of glistening foam as they descend ;but they nevertheless strike the surface of the pool below with a con-cussion so heavy that they are forced upwards in fountains of sprayand clouds of mist which wash the sides of the canon, nourishing arank growth of mosses and algae of every grade of green, ochre,orange, saffron, red, scarlet, and brown. Mr. Gannett speaks as follows of the height of the falls : — My measurement of the Lower Fall was not as simple in method,and allows more room for error than in the case of the Upper Fall.I found a point by means of the clinometer on the eastern wall ofthe canon, and very near the fall, at the same level as its top.Thence I stretched the line down the canon wall to the level of the 64 MARVELS OF THE NEW WEST, foot of the fall, reaching it at a point so close that we received athorough drenching from the spray. Then, with a clinometer, I
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GREAT FALLS OF THE YELLOWSTONE. measured as accurately as j^ossible the angle of inclination of theline. This gave as the height two hundred and ninety-seven feet. MARVELS OF NATURE. 65 Though this result cannot be regarded as strictly accurate, stillits error niust be small, and, in round numbers, three hundred feetmay be regarded as a close approximation to the true height.Ludlow measured this fall directly by means of a sounding-line, ob-taining three hundred and ten feet as the height, a result agreeingquite closely with mine, especially when one reflects on the difficultyof determining when the weight was at the base of the fall, in thecloud of mist and the rushing river. Most of the other measure-ments are barometric. Such was that of Captain Jones, who gave aheight of 328.7 feet. We are able to furnish a view of the Grand Canon of the Yellow-stone where the waters of the Great Fall tumble into it. Let the readerstudy this remarkable picture, to see what wonderful sculpturing na

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