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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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emblance to that bivalve; but the mostbeautiful of all is the Fountain Geyser, which standsa king among its fellows. While we observe theplay of this famous geyser at intervals throughoutthe day, we reserve our greatest enjoyment of itsbeauties for the evening. The earthy crust of this basin is not so varied incolor as that at Mammoth Hot Springs. Here wefind more universal the shades of yellow, white andgray. The deposits from the Fountain cover anarea of several acres. Its crater is thirty feet indiameter, and is surrounded by a rim-like edge. Inall the fountain class of geysers, there is no cone,but a large pool, which when at rest, bears a doseresemblance to the quiescent springs. When walk-ing upon the crust here, one feels as though tread-ing upon thin ice covered snow, which frequentlybreaks, letting the walker down an inch or two.The Fountain is on an eminence, not far from thehotel, and its eruptions occur at intervals of fromtwo to four hours, continuing with great force for
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In the Upper Geyser Basin 339 ten or fifteen minutes. When the pool and craterare filled with water to the rim, it is an indicationthat an eruption will soon take place. It is now between eight and nine oclock in theevening, and a beautiful clear night, with the moonjust spreading its silver radiance over a dark bluesky. We await the action of our favorite, impatientat the slight delay, and look at our watches everyfew minutes, as though saying: What has de-tained our friend ? He should be here by this time.But we are not kept long in this state. The heraldsof the monarch begin to agitate the waters in themouth of the crater. Now there is a gentle bub-bling, which grows more violent until at last thesteam bursts forth with a noise and force that in-crease every instant. The misty spray mountshigher and higher, until at the crowning point ofthe eruption, a vast body of water and steam areflung to a height of fifty feet. This continues forperhaps twenty minutes, while the noise of thees

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