of the Yellowstone and Firehole Rivers. 107 
surface. These continue for about fifty yards, gradually ascend- 
ing, when we come to an abrupt declivity of about one hundred 
and fifty feet, rising in steps formed of these exquisitely 
e water flows from the basin down the declivity from one of 
the beautiful pools to the other, it loses a portion of its heat, 
and one may find a bathing pool with any lesired temperature. 
These beautiful rims are higher in proportion to the steepness 
of the descent, and the architecture is consequently varie and 
attractive. Upon this lower terrace, springs are continually 
dying out and others are breaking out anew, and during the 
past summer one of them burst through the crust and now has 
a basin about fifteen feet in ae There are also glared 
tinct geysers, or more properly speaking, springs once spouting, 
whi a this time ass ouele BE One of these curious 
cones we called the “Liberty Cap.” It is a circular deposit of 
bo 
reached a certain height, when that fore 
itself up at the top 2g ‘ cone-like point. The water then con- 
