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Year: 1914 (1910s)
Authors: Banta, Nathaniel Moore, 1867- Schneider, Albert, 1863- Higley, William Kerr, 1860-1908 Abbott, Gerard Alan
Subjects: Natural history
Publisher: Chicago, American Audobon association
Contributing Library: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

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502 OLD FAITHFUL GEYSER.(Yellowstone National Park.^
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280 NIAGARA FALLS HD, CHICAGO GRAND CANYON, GEYSERS, ETC. 19 the throat of the geyser. The whole operation is repeatedperiodically, as often as the proper conditions of tempera-ture and pressure are met. That Yellowstone Park is aregion of very recent volcanic activity is shown by itsnumerous active geysers and hot mud springs. In any ele-mentary physical geography will be found an interestingaccount of volcanic action and the work of undergroundwater, not only in such cases as those mentioned here, butalso in the formation of caverns. H. B. Shinn. NIAGARA FALLS* Niagara Falls, the grandest cataract in the world, belongin part to the State of New York. Here the water of theGreat Lakes, west of Ontario, is poured over a precipitouschff about one hundred and sixty feet high, in two immensesheets, called the American and Horseshoe Falls, separatedby Goat Island. These falls received the name Niagarafrom the aborigines, Ni-a-ga-ra meaning thunder ofwaters. The roar created by the falls ca

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