The Yellowstone National Park - historical and descriptive - illustrated with maps, views and portraits (1895) (14762282774)

Identifier: yellowstonenatio1897chit (find matches)
Title: The Yellowstone National Park : historical and descriptive : illustrated with maps, views and portraits
Year: 1895 (1890s)
Authors: Chittenden, Hiram Martin, 1858-1917
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Publisher: Cincinnati : R. Clarke Co.
Contributing Library: Harold B. Lee Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Brigham Young University



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e Hotel, he willsee on the right of the roadway a small monument.It wTas placed there, in 1893, by the United StatesCorps of Engineers to mark a position accurately de-termined from astronomical observations by theUnited States Coast and Geodetic Survey in 1892. Itis of value as a point of reference in surveys and othersimilar work.* Mud Volcano (7.5 miles) is a weird, uncanny object,but, nevertheless, a very fascinating feature and onewhich the tourist should stop and examine. It is animmense funnel-shaped crater in the side of a consid-erable hill on the west bank of the river. The mudrises some distance above a large steam vent in theside of the crater next the hill, and chokes the ventuntil the steam has accumulated in sufficient force tolift the superincumbent mass. As the imprisonedsteam bursts forth, it hurls the mud with great vio-lence against the opposite side of the crater, making Latitude, 44° 33 16.1 north.Longitude, 110° 23 43.1 west.Magnetic variation about 19° east.
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A TOUR OF THE PARK. 249 a heavy thud which is audible for half a mile. Theseoutbursts take place every few seconds. A striking example of the strange commingling ofdissimilar features in the hot springs districts is foundin the Grotto, a spring of perfectly clear water, not farfrom the Mud Volcano. It is acted upon by thesteam in a manner precisely similar to that of theMud Volcano, but its wTaters issue directly from therock, and are entirely clear. Mud Geyser, now rarely seen in action, was an im-portant geyser twenty years ago. As it became in-frequent in its eruptions, and tourists rarely saw them,the name wTas unconsciously, but mistakenly, trans-ferred to the Mud Volcano, which has none of thecharacteristics of a geyser. The locality where these objects are found has con-siderable historic interest. The ford just below theMud Volcano was long used by the hunters and trap-pers who passed up and down the river. Folsomcrossed it in 1869, and the Washburn party in 1870.The Nez Perce