Identifier: wondersofyellows1874rich (find matches)
Title: Wonders of the Yellowstone region in the Rocky Mountains : being a description of its geysers, hot-springs, Grand Canon, waterfalls, lake, and surrounding scenery, explored in 1870-71
Year: 1874 (1870s)
Authors: Richardson, James
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Publisher: London Glascow Edinburgh : Blackie & Son
Contributing Library: Harold B. Lee Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Brigham Young University

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has a Aveird and deceptive appearance. The waterdoes not look Kke water, but like oil. Numerous fish-hawks are seen busily plying their vocation, sailinghigh above the waters, and yet a thousand feet be-low the spectator. In the clefts of the rocks down,hundreds of feet down, bald eagles have their eyries,from which one can see them swooping still fartherinto the depths to rob the ospreys of their hard-earned trout. It is grand, gloomy, and terrible; asolitude peopled with fantastic ideas; an empireof shadows and of turmoil. The plateau formation is of lava, generally mhorizontal layers, as it cooled in a surface flow, yetupheaved in many places into wave-like undulations.Occasionally granite shafts protrude through thestrata, forming landmarks of picturesque form.Like dark icebergs stranded in an ocean of green,they rise high above the tops of the trees inwooded districts, or stand out grim and sohd on thegrassy expanse of the prairies. Near the head of the Third Canon a stream flows
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aABDNERS RIVER TO GRAND CANON. 51 into the Yellowstone from the northeast, bearing thesonorous title, Hell-Roaring River. It is quite alarge stream, rising high among the mountains, andflowing with tremendous impetuosity down thedeep gorges. The mountains on either side comeclose down to the channel of the Yellowstone, andare among the most rugged in this rugged region.A huge peak of this sort, composed of stratifiedgneiss, with deep strata of massive red and greygranite, stands at the mouth of Hell-Roaring River,and takes to itself the same imposing name. A shortdistance above the mouth of Hell Roaring River,the East Fork of the Yellowstone comes in from thesoutheast. Its sources are high up among the mostrugged and inaccessible portions of the basalticrange, several jagged peaks which rise from 10,000to 11,000 feet above the sea. The summits of these high peaks, observes Mr.Hay den, are all close, compact trachyte, while allaround the sides are built up walls of stratified con-glome

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