the r. luster of jets 'breaking from the main columns in dart- 
like points end trembling into the surrounding pools in 
showers of crystal drops 
.fter a number of feeble efforts 
a second grand eruption took place. The hundreds of arrow- 
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like jets shooting through the mass of loose whirling steam & 
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and descending into the pools toward all points of the compass. 
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.■gain it quitted for half a minute and again sent up a magnificent 
gothic pointed column more perfect than either of the others and 
to as great a height, as any geyser column that I have seen, 
fourth time this was repeated with almost equal force, and the 
there was a lull. I walked to the rim and found that the 
surging water had fallen some 10 or 11 feet in the gigantic 
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tube. The eruption had Isis ted about 8 minutes. Time, near 
noon. A few minutes later the action - is renewed but with 
less force, the columns net going above 50 feet. The whole 
of this exhibition resembled that witnessed by me In 1872. 
This lasted about 5 minutes. After a lull of about five 
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minutes there was another and still more feeble attempt 
and as I rode away there were two or three other light spouts 
Passed down over a hollow- sounding bottom then out 
through the fallen timber to a spur that lies east of the 
road between the Madison and the Geyser basin, found pict 
within a few hundred yards of the Madison and just above 
road an outcrop of curious vol breccia. Marge masses of 
a dark softish glistening rock seem piled and half welded 
