WHITETAIL DEER IN ACTION 
Photo by W. S. Berry 
YELLOWSTONE NATIONAL PARK 
Four miles from the northern entrance 
to the park are the Mammoth Hot 
Springs terraces, which have been buiit 
up by the travertine deposited by the hot 
waters. From below the glimmering 
terraces present the appearance of a 
mass of ice and snow. In places the 
slope is steep, as if a large portion of it 
had been torn away; at other points the 
descent is broken by series of terraces of 
varying height, the front of each terrace 
being delicately fluted or molded into the 
most exquisite tracery. 
Impressive as are the terraces from 
below, the scene from the summit is even 
more varied and beautiful. To the east 
is the escarpment of Mount Evarts ; to 
the northwest the crest of Electric Peak 
stands sentinel at the boundary of the 
park, while around and below are the 
brilliantly colored pools which form the 
outlets of the springs. 
The Great Falls and the Grand Can- 
yon of the Yellowstone River present a 
combination of color and rock sculpture 
unequaled in beauty and grandeur. For 
some distance below Yellowstone Lake 
the river flows peacefully through 
meadow and forest, but a half mile above 
the Upper Falls the banks converge and 
the waters are lashed into foam. At the 
upper fall the drop is 109 feet. Then 
follows a few hundred feet of turbulent 
water, and the stream leaps 308 feet to- 
the bottom of the Grand Canyon, which,, 
writes Kipling in his American Notes^ 
is "one wild welter of color — crimson,, 
emerald, cobalt, ochre, amber, honey 
splashed with port wine, snow-white,, 
vermilion, lemon, and silver-gray in wide 
washes. 
"The sides d:d not fall sheer, but were 
graven by tim-e and water and air into 
monstrous heads of kings, dead chiefs, 
men, and women of the old time. So far 
below that no sound of its strife could 
reach us, the Yellowstone River ran — a. 
finger-wide strip of jade green. The 
sunlight took those wondrous walls and 
gave fresh hues to those that nature had 
already laid there. Once I saw the dawn 
break over a lake in Rajputana and the 
sun set over the Oodey Sagar amid a 
circle of Holman Hunt hills. This time 
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