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Title: The Pacific coast scenic tour, from southern California to Alaska, the Canadian Pacific railway, Yellowstone Park and the Grand Cañon
Year: 1890 (1890s)
Authors: Finck, Henry Theophilus, 1854-1926
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Publisher: New York, C. Scribner's Sons
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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adeposit, and even without being asked my name! Onentering the Park, an officer rode up and requestedme to register, explaining that all persons entering pri-vately were asked to leave their names, and state howlong they intended to stay, as a precautionary measureagainst violations of the laws relating to hunting andforest fires. These regulations, with others, are printedon linen and conspicuously posted along the road everyfew miles, so that no one can plead ignorance of the law.Scattered throughout the Park are also hundreds ofsigns reading No Huxtixg, Extinguish yourFires, with others indicating good places for camps.In the Geyser Basins the princij^al sj^rings and geysersare also marked by sign-boards, though not so liberallyas might be desired. There should be more of themnear the road to indicate the most remarkable spots.At present the paint-pots and the Gibbon andTower falls are very apt to be missed by tourists. Someof the sign-board of the Geyser Basins need renovating. I
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THROUGH YELLOWSTONE PARK. 283 At Norris one of these attracted my attention; andafter getting my eyes within six inches to decipher theobscure inscription, I read the word Dangerous !These danger signals ought to be much more frequent.The very day when I was at Norris, a lady brokethrough the crust near one of the springs and was badlyinjured. Norris Geyser Basin is directly south of MammothHot Springs, and is the place where the tourist, iflucky, gets his first view of a geyser. If the reader hasnever looked at a map of the National Park, he may getan approximate idea of its topography by bearing inmind that the principal curiosities are so placed as toform a parallelogram. The road first leads south fromMammoth Springs to the four geyser basins, — Norris,Lower, Midway, and Upper; then east to the Lake;then north to the Falls and Grand Caiion, and overMt. Washburn, to Yanceys; and thence back west tothe Mammoth Springs. The patrons of the stage line,however, miss the Lake and Mt. W

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