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THE GEYSERS OF MONTANA. 
on the side of the geysers nearest the sun, the gleams of which 
filled the sparkling column of water and spray with myriads of 
rainbows, whose arches were constantly changing — dipping and 
fluttering hither and thither, and disappearing only to be succeeded 
by others, again again, amid the aqueous column, while the 
minute globules into which the spent jets were diffused when falling 
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Old Faithful, Upper Geyser 
Basin, Fire-hole River. 
sparkled like a shower of diamonds, and around every shadow 
which the denser clouds of vapor, interrupting the sun’s rays, cast 
_ upon the column, 
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seen a luminous circle radiant with all 
rs of the prism, and resembling the halo of glory repre- 
ted in paintings as encircling the head of Divinity. All that 
w ly witnessed see tame in comparison with the 
perfect grandeur and beauty of this display. Two of these wonder- 
