For over a minute this eruption continued amid much waving 
and rolling of steam. Suddenly the effort ceased and the jets 
sank hack while at the same moment the other vent above 
which remained quiet while the jets were playing began to 
puff again , this had hardly continued a minute when the 
three jets first were again shot into the air precisely as 
before. This lasted again for a minute and ceased, the 
other playing steam meantime. For ten successive times 
this gorgeous display was repeated. At the end of this 
time I found myself quite weak from excitement. I had 
been jumping about trying to measure sketch and see. There 
were the jets peculiarly beautiful, the smooth river reflectin 
it all, a most brilliant rainbow hovering all the time in 
the filling spray. .11 set off by the dark timber behind 
(and the blue sky above. I felt when all was quiet as if 
I had seen enough for one day. I cared to look at nothing 
else. 
The ninth period was a little weak, the tenth and 
eleventh quite weak. The whole display lasted upward of 
half an hour . 
With Mushback I saw the White Cone and the Punchbowl 
outcrops of br achy to near here ■ ( Dit 705) end as we re- 
turned toward camp the Grand and Beehive gave us an 
exhibition of their powers. The former made quite a fizzle. 
Mr . E ckles brought from the cliffs beyond Iron spring' 
creek a yellowish rock of the sanadni trachite character. Ee 
