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Title: America, picturesque and descriptive
Year: 1900 (1900s)
Authors: Cook, Joel
Subjects: United States -- Description and travel
Publisher: Philadelphia, Coates
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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n attemj)t has been made underGovernment auspices to have in the Iark a hugegame j)reserve, and within its recesses large numbersof wild animals are sheltered, including deer, elk,bears, big-horn sheep, and the last herd of buffalo iuthe country. Troops of cavalry and other Govern-ment forces patrol and govern the Park. TIIK JIAMMOTII HOT SPRINGS. This extraordinary region was first made known ina way in 1807. A hunter named Coulter visited it,and getting safely back to civilization, he told suchwonderful stories of the hot springs and geysersthat the unbelieving borderers, in derision, called it Coulters Hell. Others visited it subsequently,but their remarkable tales Avere generally regardedas romances. The first thoiough exploration wasmade by Pi-of. Ilaydens scientific party for the Gov-ernment in 1871, and his report led Congress to re-serve it as a public Park. The visitor generally firstenters the Park at the jManniKtth Hut Springs, which /IDaininotI) l3ot Sprlno^i, l^cllowstone
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THE MAMMOTH HOT SPKINGS. 487 are near the northern verge of tlie broad central phi-teau. Here are tlie wonderful terraces built np bythe earlier calcareous deposits of these Springs, cov-ering an area of several square miles, and in thepresent active operations about two hundred acres,with a dozen or more terraces, and some seventyflowing springs, the temperature of the water risingto 165°. The lower terrace extends to the edge ofthe gorge of Gardiner River, Avith high mountainpeaks beyond. The hotel is built on one of the ter-races, with yawning caves and the craters of extinctgeysers at several places in front. The higher ter-races rise in white, streaked with brown and othertints, as the overflowing, trickling Avaters may havecolored them. The best idea that can be got of thisj)lace is by conjuring up the popular impression ofthe infernal regions with an ample stock of heat andbrimstone. For a long distance, rising from the topof the gorge of Gardiner River Avestward in succes-siv

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