awk with the white hot spring spot on the dark hill beyond. 
Steamboat Point and the mountains to the east. There were 
the fine islands and the promontory point with its knotty 
half forest covered hills, the meadows at the head of the 
lake and the densely timbered ridges to the south. These 
latter hide the upper Yellowstone Valley about the head of 
Pellicah Preek and directly east of the northern post of 
the lake the timbered slopes rise pretty gradually to an 
extensive series of rounded but often sharp pointed summits 
of red gray color among which at the south are lit. Sangford 
and Mt. Stevenson. Back of these and extending more to the 
south are sections of a very different appearance --rugged, steep 
faced, deeply scored and dark that show massive horizontal 
bedding and rise to superior heights. Beyond East fork 
are the Vol Cengtomerate mountains whicix have a similar 
appearance . 
Columbia Spring, Heart Lake Basin. 
The chief spring of the group. 40 feet diameter. 
Large volume of water do n to Lake, Has charge channel . Formerly 
built terraces and killed much forest. 200 yards to Lake. 
Basin irregular in outline and contour, deep and 
capacious, irregular rounded shelves most prominent of S.L. 
side. Under water gray color covered with rounded nodules, 
very deeply scalloped rim. White on edge, which is finely 
scalloped. Edges thin 163 inches thick, smooth above, often 
projecting and in places fallen in. Orange and gray greenish 
