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Title: Wonders of the Yellowstone region in the Rocky Mountains : being a description of its geysers, hot-springs, Grand Canon, waterfalls, lake, and surrounding scenery, explored in 1870-71
Year: 1874 (1870s)
Authors: Richardson, James
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Publisher: London Glascow Edinburgh : Blackie & Son
Contributing Library: Harold B. Lee Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Brigham Young University

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olence. When thecrater is filled, it is expelled from it in a splashing,scattered mass, ten or fifteen feet in thickness, tothe height of forty feet. The water is of a darklead color, and deposits the substance it holds insolution in the form of miniature stalagmites uponthe sides and top of the crater. As this was thefirst object which approached a geyser, we, natur-ally enough, regarded it with intense curiosity While returning by a new route to our camp,dull, thundering sounds, which General Washburnlikened to frequent discharges of a distant mortar,broke upon our ears. W^e followed their direction,and found them to proceed from a mud volcano,which occupied the slope of a small hill, embow-ered in a grove of pines. Dense volumes of steamshot into the air with each report, through a craterthirty feet in diameter. The reports, though irreg-ular, occurred as often as every five seconds, andcould be distinctly heard half a mile. Each alter-nate report shook the ground a distance of two
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THE MUD VOLCANO. FROM TEE FALLS TO THE LAKE 101 hundred yards or more, and ttie massive jets of va-por which accompanied them burst forth like thesmoke of burning gunpowder. It was impossible tostand on the edge of that side of the crater oppositethe wind, and one of our party, Mr. Hedges, wasrewarded for his temerity in venturing too near therim, by being thrown by the force of the volume ofsteam violently down the outer side of the crater.From hasty views, afforded by occasional gusts ofwind, we could see at a depth of sixty feet the re-gurgitating contents. This volcano, as is evident from the freshnessof the vegetation and the particles of dried clayadhering to the topmost branches of the trees sur-rounding it, is of very recent formation. Probablyit burst forth but a few months ago. Its first ex-plosion must have been terrible. We saw limbs oftrees 125 feet high encased in clay, and found itsscattered contents two hundred feet from it. On the east side of the Yellowstone, close t

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