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always calling your attention to the way in which 

 they do it, and how much water they are carrying 

 and what a business they are doing. 



But we were by this time blase. After seeing 

 the Yellowstone, we did not care to spend any time 

 over the kind of falls they have back East. So 

 we lingered not till we topped the ridge from 

 w^hich you first catch sight of the great peaks 

 about Mammoth — Mt. Evarts, Electric and Bun- 

 sen's Peaks. This is a superb mountain view, for 

 you take in the valley of the Gardiner River, and 

 the Yellowstone, where, far below and hidden 

 from sight, is its third and, they say, its finest 

 caiion. 



At noon we were at Mammoth, whose great 

 wooden hotel marks the northern boundary of our 

 tour. 



This is the official center of the Park, from 

 which its administration is carried on. There is 

 a two-troop post here, barracks and a military 

 prison, a parade ground and a little square of blue- 

 grass, from the center of which floats the flag; and 

 you realize that you are once more in the United 

 States. 



