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interest, especially when they are accompanied hy woodcuts, as they are in 
the following case.* Here is his account of the Liberty Cap, a view on the 
White Mountain : — “ On this sub-terrace is a remarkable cone, about 50 feet 
in height and 20 feet in diameter at the base. Its form has suggested the 
name of Liberty Cap. It is undoubtedly the remains of an extinct geyser. 
The water was forced up with considerable power, and probably without 
intermission, building up its own crater until the pressure beneath was 
exhausted, and the spring gradually closed itself over at the summit. 
Ho water flows frofn it at the present time.” 
THE DEVIL’S HOOF. 
Again, in describing the scenery of Gardiner’s River, on the way to the 
Grand Canon, the author quotes Mr. Langford, who says of the falls of the river 
into the Yellowstone, which are surrounded by columns of breccia, that “the 
position attained on one of these narrow summits, at a height of 250 feet 
above the boiling chasm, requires a steady head and strong nerves 
Many of the capricious formations wrought from the shale excite merriment 
as well as wonder. Of this kind especially was a huge mass sixty feet in 
height (see figure above), which, from its supposed resemblance to the 
proverbial foot of his Satanic Majesty, we called the Devil’s Hoof.” The 
work concludes by giving a quotation from the Government papers relative 
* Cuts kindly lent by the Publisher. 
