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REPORT UNITED STATES GEOLOGICAL SURVEY. 



Table of the Lower Group, Witch Creeh Springs — Continued. 



Size and depth. 



Semarks. 



1 foot diameter 

 4i by 5 feet. ... 

 3 by 6 feet 



2 by 4 feet 



8 inches diameter . . 



3 by 5 feet 



3 feet long 



3 by 7 feet 



2 by 4 feet 



18 iuchea by 3 feet . 

 6 inches by 1 foot.. 

 a 6^ by 7 or 5 feet . . 



a 4 by 4i feet 



h 3 feet diameter 

 a 3 feet diameter. 



b 4 feet long 



c 4 feet diameter . 



5 feet long 



6 by 10 feet 



12 feet diameter 



27by SO^eet 



11 by 19i feet, 15 feet deep 

 16J by 8A and 9 feet 



o J'. 



185 

 195 

 160 

 145 



180 



174 



164 



160 



175 



194 



194 



also 



f/175 



cl98 



also 



bl25 



al50 



6128 



cl25 



115 



125 



189 



177 

 150 

 160 

 155 



Dead springs. 

 Sp outers. 



"White basin, which receives overflow from Ko. 15. 



Ked-bordered, green basin below No. 16 ; receives 

 water from Nos. 15 and 16. 



Small, white sponter, with green border. 



White-bordered. 



White basin. 



Three openings in the irregular basin. 



White basin. 



Beaded border in geyserite. 



Pearly-beaded spouter. 



a boils and spouts a foot or more; b is a white 

 basin; c is a small hole. Besides these there are 

 other spoutera on the same platform. 



? Two yellowish, white-lined basins ; quiet ; a small 



i bubbler is near a. 



} These springs are in the grass, and have quiet, 

 i almost dead, springs near them. 



Green-lined basin in a mound near the creek. 

 Green-lined pool. 



Old geyser cone, in which the water is 3 or 4 feet 

 below from the top. 



Large, brown-lined pool. 

 Beautiful bine spring. 

 Heart-shaped spring. 



*■ Spring. 



RUSTIC GROUP. 



For the notes on this group I am indebted to Mr. Gannett, who made 

 the accompanying map of the group. No temperatures were taken, and 

 during my visit the limited time at our disposal prevented any more 

 notes being added to those of Mr. Gannett. This group is at the base 

 of the mountains, about an eighth of a mile back from the lake and 

 about the same distance below the mouth of Witch Creek, and occu- 

 pies an area of about 4,000 square yards. Plate XL6 gives a distant 

 view of the group, with Mount Sheridan rising above it enveloped in 

 clouds. Captain Barlow refers to the group on page 34 of his report* 

 as follows : 



Just at the foot of this mountain, near the lake shore, are four or five boiling springs, 

 one of which is a geyser of considerable importance, throwing jets^f water, at ire 

 quent intervals, to the height of 15 feet. 



In Comstock's description of his trip to the Heart Lake Basin 1 1 find 

 no reference to this group. The principal spring or geyser in the group 

 is the Rustic Geyser (Plates XLI and XLII). This has a basin 8 by 9 

 feet, bordered by logs, which are coated with a crystalline, semi-translu- 

 cent deposit of geyserite. These logs were evidently placed around the 

 geyser by either Indians or white men a number of years ago, as the 

 coating is thick and the logs firmly attached to the surrounding de- 

 posit, which occupies an area of about 31 feet diameter. 



* Ex. Doc. No. 66, Senate, Forty-second Congress, second session, p. 34. 

 t Report on Reconnaissance of N. W. Wyoming, by Captain Jones, p. 239. 



