Identifier: americapicturesq01cookuoft (find matches)
Title: America, picturesque and descriptive
Year: 1900 (1900s)
Authors: Cook, Joel
Subjects: United States -- Description and travel
Publisher: Philadelphia, Coates
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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stream, with heavily timbered banks, much of theinitial valley being marshy, and it flows into the Yel-lowstonc Lake, the largest sheet of water at a highelevation in North America. This lake has bays in-dented in its western and southern shores, giving theirregular outline somewhat the appearance of a humanhand, and there arc five of them, called the Thumband the Fingers. The thumb of this distortedhand is thicker than its length, the forefinger is de-tached and shrivelled, the middle finger has also beenbadly treated, and the much swollen little finger isthe biggest of all, thus making a very demoralizedhand. The trail eastward over fiom the Upper Fire-hole Geyser Basin comes out on the West Thumb ofthe lake, mounting the Continental Divide on theAvay, and crossing it twice as it makes a curious loopto the northward, the second crossing being at eighty-five hundred feet elevation, whence the trail descendsto the West Thumb. Y^cllowstone Lake is at seventy- jfrnls of tbe l^ellowstone
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YELLOWSTONE FALLS AND CANYON. 505 seven liundred anrl forty feet elevation, and coversabout one hundred and fifty square miles, liavinj^- ahundred miles of coast-line. The scenery is tame,the shores being usually gentle slopes, Avith muchmarsh and pine woods. Islands dot the blue waters,and waterfowl frequent the marshes. The most ele-vated portion of the immediate environment is FlatIMountain, on the southwestern side, rising five hun-dred feet, but beyond the eastern shore are some ofthe highest peaks of the Park, exceeding eleventhousand feet. Hot springs adjoin the West Thumb,and there is an actual geyser crater in the lake itself.Towards the northern end the shores gradually con-tract into the narrow and shalloAV Yellowstone River,which flows towards the northwest after first leavingthe lake, having occasional hot springs, geysers,paint pots and steam jets at work, with large adja-cent surfaces of geyserite. and sulphur. The chiefcuriosity in operation is the Giants Cauldron, boi

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