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Title: Touring Alaska and the Yellowstone
Year: 1901 (1900s)
Authors: Taylor, Charles M. (Charles Maus), 1849-
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Publisher: Philadelphia : G.W. Jacobs & Co.
Contributing Library: Harold B. Lee Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Brigham Young University

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ading the driver to halt,she took off her shoes and stockings and bathed herfeet in this creek. Upon replacing her shoes shefound them, to her surprise, very much too large. Not to be outdone, another passenger relates thestory of a coach with six horses and a half a dozenpassengers, which forded the creek, and upon land-ing on the opposite bank, the passengers wereamazed to find the horses transformed into sixponies, and the coach into a diminutive chaise,while they and the driver had become pigmies. The waters of the Yellowstone River are cold andtransparent. Hundreds of trout may be seen swim-ming to and fro, or darting about in sportive mood.About five miles from the hotel we halt to view theMud Geyser, which is formed of several largecraters filled with blue mud of exceedingly un-pleasant odor. As we look down the mouth of thisformation, at a depth of thirty feet we behold a cave-like opening, through which the blue mass is forcedwith great violence, accompanied by a dull muffled
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to Yellowstone Lake and Grand Canon 377 thud. Its outbursts are constant. The trees aboutus bear witness to an extremely powerful eruptionin 1898. When within a mile of the Canon Hotel, thecoach stops, and we have our first view of theYellowstone Rapids. The river, which has hithertoflowed along its course, a tranquil, lovely stream, ishere forced by the canon walls, close to the road.Large boulders obstruct its passage, and it plungeswildly between steep banks, and over rocks, break-ing into boisterous waterfalls, and casting its sprayhigh in the air. At the first, or Upper Fall, thewaters flow from a height of one hundred andtwelve feet over an almost perpendicular precipicewith incredible force and speed. The hotel is a structure of unattractive exterior,which agreeably surprises one by the atmosphereof comfort and good cheer within. The touristfinds here pleasant, clean rooms, and an obliginglandlord, whose aim is the pleasure and welfare ofhis guests. The altitude of the hotel is

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