THE YELLOWSTONE NATIONAL PARK. 67 
on the east of Yellowstone Lake, a pass was discovered through 
which the pack-train was guided safely, but with considerable diffi- 
culty. This route, though in some respects preferable to the 
present circuitous way of entering the park, is not destined to be 
made available to tourists, owing to the engineering difficulties to 
be surmounted, and the comparatively slight saving in the dis- 
tance. Upon the return of the expedition, however, a very practi- 
cable entrance was discovered, by way of the head of Wind River, 
from the southward. Through this new pass, which Capt. Jones 
has appropriately named 7%6-g0-té,* after our Shoshone guide, a 
railroad may be constructed with little difficulty to connect with 
the Union Pacific at Rawlins, which would sate to tourists from the 
east at least five hundred miles of travel in each direction. This 
would render the park and the Montana settlements readily acces- 
sible, and unlock the rich mineral deposits of the Wind River 
valley and the Sweetwater (Wyoming) mining region. Here also 
a fine agricultural country is awaiting development, and already 
herds of excellent cattle are to be seen grazing in the rich pastures 
of the smaller valleys. 
While traversing that portion of this region now reserved for the 
general public, embracing the greater number of the hot springs 
and geysers, I was very deeply impressed with a sense of the 
immense amount of time and labor which must be spent in inves- 
tigating the various productions and phenomena of the park, ere 
we can unravel its past history or fully interpret its present mani- 
festations. By a most fortunate, though quite accidental dispo- 
sition of my time, I was-enabled to pass through the most inter- 
esting portion of these wonders in such a manner as to witness 
and note a large number of the most striking manifestations in a 
Comparatively short space of time. And yet when I say that I 
could have remained for weeks in the neighborhood of a single 
geyser or spring, watching closely its daily and hourly pulsations 
and eruptions, studying its history, and marking its effects with- 
out oie rele more forcibly than my own ignorance, it will 
: iin nunciation of Indian words I have adopted, as pei as pos- 
sible with ordinary type, the admirable and comprehensive system of C. H. Be- 
rendt, as explained in his paper entitled “ “Analytical Alphabet for the ieee: and 
merican guages,” p 1 Society, New 
tak te. 
hin Tt should be noticed that the the “g” in hs word Das the sound of te gta of 
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