Identifier: picturesqueameri01brya (find matches)
Title: Picturesque America; or, The land we live in. A delineation by pen and pencil of the mountains, rivers, lakes, forests, water-falls, shores, cañons, valleys, cities, and other picturesque features of our country
Year: 1872 (1870s)
Authors: Bryant, William Cullen, 1794-1878, editor Bunce, Oliver Bell, 1828-1890
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Publisher: New York, D. Appleton
Contributing Library: University Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Digitizing Sponsor: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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ving regular pulsations, like a steam-engine, givingoff large quantities of steam, which would issue forth with the roar of a hurricane.This was, in reality, a steam-volcano ; deepvibrations in the subterraneous caverns, ex- . , ^ ■ -■ ■^ 4 A .,»:r ■ ■ ■ tending far away beneath the hill, could be \^^r?=, • , -• ^ ^ \ , ■ , ,1; distinctly heard. The country from this point to themud-volcano, a few miles above, was most-ly rolling prairie, intersected with severalstreams flowing into the river, some of themhaving wide estuaries and adjacent swampvflats, covered with thick marsh-grass.Ducks were usually found in thesesluggish streams, as well as in thelittle lakes so numerous throughoutthis whole region. We camped onthe bank of the river, in the im-mediate vicinity of the mud-geyser.This being thefirst specimen ofthe true geysersyet seen, it wasexamined withgreat curiosity.The central pointof interest, how-ever, is the mud-volcano, which hasbroken out from Uberty-Cap.
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-MAFL^y 312 PICTURESQUE AMERICA. the side of a well-timbered hill. The crater is twenty-five feet across at the top,gradually sloping inward to the bottom, where it becomes about half this diameter.Its depth is about thirty feet. The deposit is gray mud, nearly pure alumina, andhas been thrown up by the action of the volcano at no very distant period. Therim of the crater on the down-hill side is some ten feet in height, and trees fifty

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