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Identifier: glimpsesofournat00unit (find matches)
Title: Glimpses of our national parks ..
Year: 1916 (1910s)
Authors: United States. Dept. of the Interior Yard, Robert Sterling, 1861- (from old catalog)
Subjects: National parks and reserves
Publisher: Washington, Govt. print. off.
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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grow onthe edges and sides of these basins, assisting the deposition of themineral matter and painting them hues of red and pink and bluishgray, which in warm Aveather glow brilliantly, but in cold Aveatheralmost disappear. At many other points lesser hot springs occur,introducing strange, almost uncanny, elements into Avoocled and other-wise quite normal landscapes. A tour of these hot-Avater formations and spouting geysers is anexperience never to be forgotten. Some of the geysers play at quiteregular intervals. For many years the celebrated Old Faithful playedAvith great regularity every seventy minutes, but during the summerof 1015 the interval lengthened to about eighty-five minutes, due. itis supposed, to the smaller snoAvfall and consequent lessened Avatersupply of the preceding Avinter. Some of the largest geysers play atiiregular intervals of days, Aveeks, or months. Some Aery small onesplay every few minutes. )N(any bubbling hot springs, Avhich throAV OUR NATIONAL PARKS. 11
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iholu.m-aph liy .1. j;. Uayins, St. Iaul Old Faithful Geyser. Yellowstone National Pakk 12 OUR NATIONAL PARKS. water two or three feet into the air once or twice a iiiiiiiite, are reallysmall, imperfectly formed geysers. The hot-siH-ino- terraces are also a rather awe-inspiring spectacleAvhen seen for the first time. The visitor may climb upon them andpick his way around among the steaming pools. In certain lightsthe surface of these pools appears vividly colored. The deeper hotpools are often intensely green. The incrustations are often beauti-fully crystallized. Clumps of grass, and even flowers, which havebeen submerged in the charged waters become exquisitely plated, asif with frosted silver. But the geysers and hot-water formations are by no means theonly wonders in the Yellowstone. Indeed the entire park is a won-derland. Tlie Grand Canyon of the Yellowstone affords a spectacleworthy of a national park were there no geysers. But you mustnot confuse your Grand Canyons, of which t

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