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Title: Sixth annual report of the United States geological survey of the Territories, embracing portions of Montana, Idaho, Wyoming, and Utah : being a report of progress of the explorations for the year 1872
Year: 1873 (1870s)
Authors: Geological and Geographical Survey of the Territories (U.S.) Hayden, F. V. (Ferdinand Vandeveer), 1829-1887
Subjects: Botany Zoology Meteorology
Publisher: Washington : G.P.O.
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF THE TERRITORIES. 53 The hot springs and geysers of the Yellowstone and Madison wereso fully described last year, and are, ^vitll considerable detail, noticed iuthe present report by Dr. Peale and Professor Bradley, that I have giventhem but little attention, I will refer, however, for a moment, to a fewillnstrations,.and among them the fine one which I am permitted to usein this report by the courtesy of the editors of the Illustrated Christi;in
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Weekly. The cuts were engraved from photographs taken by Mr, Jack-son, of the survey, during the summer of 1871. The Hot Spring Conewe called the Fish-Pot, from the fact that it extended out into thelake several feet, so that one could stand on the siliceous mound andhook the trout from the coldwaters of the lake, and, without moving,boil them in the steaming-hot water of the spring. There seemed tobe no connection between the orifice of the Hot Spring and the coldwater around. In the upi.er right-hand corner is the Castle Geyser, 64 GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF THE TERRITORIES. and the most beautiful spring iu the Upper Geyser Basin of the Madi-son. The Grotto and Giant Geysers are first-class spouters, throw-ing a column of water up from 100 to 200 feet and continuing the oper-ation from one to tvTo hours. The Boiling Spring, at Sulphur Moun-tain, is located in the valley of the Yellowstone, about tea miles belowthe lake, at a locality known as the Seven Hills. It is indicated onthe chart i

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