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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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J-0\VEk FALL OK YELLOWSTONE RIVER, GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF THE TEREITOEIES. 133 strikes a number of ledges of rock, which churn it into a mass of foam.A portion of the water is projected out like a broad fan, and strik-ing the water below makes a sort of ricochet, while the main massof water reaches the base of the fall about 20 feet from the verti-cal line let fall from the top. The water has cut out of the solid rock arouuded basin, from which the course of the river is almost at rightangles to the course above the fall. For some distance above the fall Fig. 36.
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CRYSTAL FALLS ON CASCADE CREEK, 129 FEET. there is a series of rapids over which the current is very swift. Thecanon between the two falls is about half a mile long and the fall ofthe river between these two points is 68 feet. The walls of this caiionvary in height from 100 to 200 feet. Cascade Creek flows into the Yellowstone Eiveron the westside betweenthe falls. A short distance above its mouth we find a beautiful fall,(Fig. 36,) or rather cascade, for it is made up of three distinct falls, the 134 GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF THE TERRITORIES. aggregate height of which is 129 feet. The stream, after passing througha deep, gloomy gorge, makes a leap of about 21 feet and then falls againin three streams a distance of over 50 feet into a beautiful, roundedbasin, in which the water is perfectly clear and quiet. From this basinthe final leap is taken and the water flows on to the Yellowstone Elver. Leaving Cascade Creek our next camp (No. 13) was at Mud Volca-noes near the Yellowstone River, ab

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