F L O R ^ LIBRARY 



NEW YORK 



BOTANICAL 



OARDGN 



YELLOWSTONE NATIONAL PARK. 



TOPOGRAPHIC FEATURES. 



The Yellowstone National Park, with the exception of a 

 narrow strip two miles wide on the north and northwest in 

 Montana, and on the southwest in Idaho, lies in the extreme 

 northwest corner of Wj^oming. It has a length north and south 

 of sixty-two miles, and a breadth of fiftj^-four miles, containing 

 about 3350 square miles. Aside from the wonderful geyser 

 basins and hundreds of boiling springs, but few regions can 

 compare with it in the variety of its topographic features : — 

 Plateaus diversified by deep caiions, lakes, and ponds of the 

 greatest beauty of outline ; mountain ranges of everj- possible 

 description, from the rounded massive form to those of the most 

 rugged and precipitous character. 



The central and southern portion of the Park is, for the most 

 part, with the exception of the isolated Red Mountain Range in 

 the extreme south, a high rolling, heavily timbered country, 

 mainly plateau from 7500-10,000 feet in altitude, the latter 

 height being reached onl}- on the high volcanic plateaus in the 

 extreme southeast. 



In the northwest rises the Gallatin Range, culminating in 

 Electric Peak, 11,000 feet above sea level. On the eastern 

 border lie the rugged volcanic peaks of the Absaroka ^ or Yel- 

 lowstone Range, reaching elevations of 10,800 feet on the north- 



' Absaroka is the Indian name of the Crow Nation, whose reservation is 

 on the eastern slope of this range of mountains. 



