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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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of the whole family, having been the first towelcome civilized man to these regions. His y£arsmay be counted by the thousands. The outpour ofan average eruption, as estimated by the UnitedStates Geological survey, is not less than 1,500,000gallons, which amounts to 33,225,000 gallons per day.We make the round of the other geysers, accom-panied by the guide who gives us a hasty descrip-tion of each. Some are active, and delight us withtheir majestic beauty beneath the glowing sunlight;others lying dormant, are calm, clear and exquisitein color. These are the names of a few of them:The Bee Hive, whose fountain is so hot that itgenerally evaporates while in mid air; Giantess,upon the highest point of the Upper Basin, whoseeruptions occur only once in several days, butwhose display is very wonderful, continuing atshort intervals through a period of twelve hours.The Butterfly, a beautiful geyser, whose eruptionassumes the form of a butterfly, as it is forced fromthe crater of the spring.
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In the Upper Geyser Basin 357 An Englishman in our party has the habit ofpoking his stick into these formations. I tell himhe will subject himself to a heavy fine if discovered;but he replies that no harm is done, since his caneis not injured by the experiments. Here is Topaz Pool—and here the Sponge, acurious formation, resembling a great sponge incharacter and color. Its water boils and bubbles,sending up a fountain four or five feet above itsbasin. The Quaker is so called from the quiveringof the top scales of its crusty formation. There is aperceptible rising of three or four inches in thismass—a strange phenomenon. The Beach and theEar are named from some real or fancied resem-blance to these objects. The fountain of the Lion Geyser shoots upwardto a height of fully seventy-five feet, at intervals offrom three to five hours. It frequently continues inaction from five to ten minutes. Its noise duringthese eruptions is equal to the mighty roar of itsnamesake. The Lioness and th

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