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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asingand striking picture. MUD-SPRINGS. We pitched our camp-on the shore of the river, near the Mud Springs, thirteenand a half miles above our camp on Cascade Creek. The springs are scattered alongon both sides of the river, sometimes extending upon the hill-sides fifty to two hundred 3o8 PICTURESQUE AMERICA. feet above the level of the river. Commencing with the lower or southern side of thegroup, I will attempt to describe a few of them. The first one is a remarkable mud-spring, with a well-defined circular rim composed of fine clay, and raised about four feetabove the surface around, and about six feet above the mud in the basin. The diameterof the basin is about eight feet. The mud is so fine as to be impalpable, and the wholemay be most aptly compared to a caldron of boiling mush. The gas is constantly escap-ing, throwing up the mud from a few inches to six feet in height; and there is no doubtthat there are times when it is hurled out ten to twenty feet, accumulating around the
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The First Boat on the Yellowstone. rim of the basin. About twenty yards distant from the mud-spring just described is asecond one, with a basin nearly circular, forty feet in diameter, the water six or eight feetbelow the margin of the rim. The water is quite turbid, and is boiling moderately.Small springs are flowing into it from the south side, so that the basin forms a sort ofreservoir. The temperature, in some portions of the basin, is thus lowered to ninety-eight degrees. Several small hot springs pour their surplus water into it, the tempera-tures of which are one hundred and eighty, one hundred and seventy, one hundred andeighty-four, and one hundred and fifty-five degrees. In the reservoirs, where the water OUR GREAT NATIONAL PARK. 309 boils up with considerable force, the temperature is only ninety-six degrees, showing thatthe bubbling was due to the escape of gas. The bubbles stand all over the surface.About twenty feet from the last is a small mud-spring, with an orifice te

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