Identifier: threewonderlands00murp (find matches)
Title: Three wonderlands of the American West; being the notes of a traveler, concerning the Yellowstone park, the Yosemite national park, and the Grand Canyon of the Colorado River, with a chapter on other wonders of the great American West
Year: 1912 (1910s)
Authors: Murphy, Thos. D. (Thomas Dowler), 1866-1928
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Publisher: Boston, L. C. Page & company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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the very center of the active phe-nomena of the Park. Nowhere else are thegeysers so plentiful, so varied or so beautiful.The queen of them all in beauty, symmetry andreliability is Old Faithful, which very appropri-ately gives its name to the inn. Every hour,day and night, summer and winter, this greatwhite column of water and shining vapor spoutshigh into the heavens. There are others largerand which rise higher, but their intervals arevery irregular and often of rare occurrence, andwere it not for the rightly designated Old Faith-ful, many tourists would go through the Parkwithout seeing a really representative geyser inaction. The region around Old Faithful, known asUpper Geyser Basin, has many attractions asidefrom the geysers themselves. One will lingerlong to admire the crystal river that glidesthrough the valley like molten diamond over itsbed of mossy stones, and to watch the schoolsof mountain trout that dart hither and thitherthrough the bright water quite regardless of 12
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THE YELLOWSTONE your presence. Then there are Emerald Pooland Morning-Glory Spring, two of the mostremarkable natural phenomena of the Park.The first is a lakelet of the most delicate emeraldgreen, its waters themselves as clear as crystalbut taking their tint from the bottom of thepool, giving a wonderful efifect of purity andtransparency. The water is just below the boil-ing temperature, and apparently of great depth.The Morning-Glory Spring, whose marked re-semblance in shape to that flower gives it thename, is easily the most beautiful of the numer-ous hot springs of the Park. Its sides, followingthe contour of a giant morning-glory, slopeaway to a great depth, and reflect the hues of athousand gems into the clear water that fills thespring. Turquois, emerald, jasper, amethyst,amber and lapis lazuli seem to lend their multi-farious colors to the walls of the spring, combin-ing to produce an effect indescribably beautiful.And yet, much as one may admire and enjoy allthis weird beau

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