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washes and cleanses the whole of it. The es- 

 caping steam and gas produce waves like 

 ripples that make it a thing of life ln^uall of 

 a piece of dead jewelry. In the foreground 

 you will notice a lillle pool. I think this has 

 been called the Angels' Cofifin, or something 

 that sounds like that; and, in fact, il has the 



our cainping- 



DEVII, S PUNCH BOWL. 



appearance of being lined with the richest 

 and rarest satin that the world has ever pro- 

 duced. All I have ever seen in the v\ay of 

 silks and bright ribbons can hardly compare 

 with it. 



A little further away from 

 place is Beauty Spring, 

 Grand Turban Geyser, 

 Sawmill, and Spasmod- 

 ic. Sawmill Geyser 

 looked like a saw, or at 

 least some imagined it 

 did, and it makes a 

 hissing noise, some- 

 thing like a buzz saw 

 cutting a log. As it 

 goes off every thirty 

 minutes you can hear 

 it, and then see it, ev- 

 ery little while. Spas- 

 modic goes off about 

 every twenty minutes, 

 and throws water about 

 forty feet high. The 

 Lioness and Cubs are 

 close together. While 

 the mother erupts only 

 about once a da}-, the 

 cubs are spouting wa- 

 ter ten or fifteen feet 

 high every little while; 

 and when you see the 

 three playing together it makes a very pretty 

 sight. 



Now, there is one beautiful spring not far 

 from here, the name of which I have forgotten. 

 Its wonderful peculiarity is that it is constant- 

 ly sending up bubbles of gas or steam that 



have a brilliant blue color. As you catch a 

 view of this weird tint away down in the 

 depths of the pool, and watch till it reaches 

 the surface, it seems like a phantom light. I 

 went over and sat down all alone, and tried to 

 investigate and see what it v/as that caused 

 tUis blue sulphurous dancing flame, as it 

 seemed to be, away 

 down in the depths of 

 the water. I could not 

 make it out. When the 

 bubble had reached the 

 surface it was gone. 

 Biscuit Basin is some- 

 where in this vicinity. 

 It is in connection with 

 Sapphire Pool. We give 

 a picture below. These 

 little projections above 

 the water look for all 

 the world like veritable 

 biscuits, but many of 

 them were rather more 

 fantastically ornament- 

 ed than we find them 

 on the dining - table. 

 Although they looked 

 soft, and almost fit to 

 eat, you can walk over 

 them without injuring 

 the delicate surface; 

 ai,d if your foot should 

 soil them, the boiling 

 water will soon wash them off clean. This 

 Sapphire Pool is a pulsating spring; and it is 

 the rising and falling of the water that has 

 produced the biscuits. You can not get a good 

 view of Sapphire Pool without walking care- 

 fully over tliese s;epping-stones. 



BISCUIT BASIN AND SAPPHIRE POOL. 



Castle Geyser attracts very much attention. 

 There are seats all around this one, where 

 visitors can sit and wait for the display. You 

 will almost always find a crowd hanging 

 around it, because it has a rather tantalizing 

 fashion of making strangers think it is going 



