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base, and has one side partly broken down and bent inward. It throws out, at long 

 intervals, a jet ninety to two hundred feet in height. The " Beehive " geyser-cone 

 (Fig. 1120), of the same region, is small, being but three feet high and five in diameter 



Fig. 1121. 



Beehive Geyser in action. 



at base; but its jet, shown in Fig. 1121, as it appears when in full play, from an excel- 

 lent drawing by Mr. Holmes, is one of the highest, it exceeding two hundred feet. It 

 plays about once a day. Fig. 1119 represents the "Liberty Cap," one of the cal- 

 careous geyser-cones of the Gardiner River region, now extinct; it has a height of fifty 

 feet, and a diameter at base of twenty feet. " Old Faithful " is one of the largest of 

 the Madison River geysers ; it has a low and broad irregular cone, and throws up its 



