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POPULAR SCIENCE REVIEW. 
WONDERS OF THE YELLOWSTONE REGION.* 
TTTE fancy that there are not a few, even among educated people, who 
f V have not the remotest idea where the district so graphically 
described in this volume is to be found. One of our friends, not a dis- 
tinguished Fellow of the Geographical Society, told us it was some- 
where in Brazil ; and another said, without doubt it was a part of the 
Canadian Provinces. It is in 
neither district. The Yellow- 
stone region, that is so singu- 
larly well described, is a district 
in the very same latitude as the 
State of New York, but it is in 
the territory of Wyoming, i.e. 
about midway between the Pa- 
cific Ocean and the Mississippi. 
It has only been lately de- 
scribed at all, even to the scientific world, and now it has all its beauties 
unfolded to the general reader. The author of the book gives the most 
enthralling account of the scenery, and of his own marvellous escapades 
and thrilling adventures over the mountains, through the snow and hot 
springs, with frequently no fodder of any, kind but a few roots cooked 
in a neighbouring hot spring. His descriptions are some of them of great 
THE LIBERTY CAP. 
* 11 Wonders of the Yellowstone Region, in the Rocky Mountains. Being 
a Description of its Geysers, Hot Springs, Grand Canon, Waterfalls, Lake, 
and surrounding Scenery, explored in 1870-71.” Edited by James Richard- 
son. London : Blackie & Son. 1874. 
