. Grand guide touristique du parc national de Yellowstone : manuel pour les touristes, description des sources chaudes Mammoth, des bassins geyser, des cataractes, des cañons et autres caractéristiques du nouveau pays des merveilles : avec vingt-et-une illustrations, plan du bassin supérieur du geyser et cartes des itinéraires : également une annexe contenant les tarifs ferroviaires, ainsi que d'autres informations diverses . tous les trains de voyageurs. Vallée de la rivière Gardiner.—près de Cinnabar, la Yellowstonereceives les eaux de la rivière Gardiner, et elle est mainlyà travers la vallée de ce dernier cours d'eau que les ingénieurs des États-Unis, ont chargé de t

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. 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 . th all passenger trains. Gardiner River Valley.—Near Cinnabar, the Yellowstonereceives the waters of the Gardiner River, and it is mainlythrough the valley of the latter stream that the U. S. engineers, charged with the duty of ascertaining the most practicable routesbetween various points and of building the magnificent roadsthat have rendered easy of access the innumerable objects ofinterest in the Park, have constructed the road from the rail-way terminus to the Mammoth Hot Springs. In this valley, evidences of the volcanic character of the country are morenumerous and striking than in that of the Yellowstone. Thegeneral scenery, too, is exceedingly grand and imposing.Sepulchre Mountain looming up to the right, in front the fineoutline of Bunsens Peak, and to the east the majestic domes ofthe Yellowstone Range. Amid such surroundings as these, a sharp turn in the road reveals one of the most curiousfeatures of the Park, meeting the traveler at its very threshold. : «CCC«Cgcc«c 9t. YELLOWSrONE NATIONAL PARK, THE MAMMOTH HOT SPRINGS. These remarkable terrace-building springs are situated in asmall valley, i, ooo feet above the Gardiner River, into whichtheir flow is discharged. The material deposited by the springsis mainly calcareous, taken up by the hot water as it finds itsway to the surface through deep-lying cretaceous strata. Thewater issues at various elevations on the terraces frommany vents, in pulsating waves, which overflow the basins, and deposit thin, corrugated layers of the substance held insolution. This deposit is moderately hard while wet, butbecomes quite soft and fria

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