It is beyond the power of brush or pen to paint the wilderness3, the beauty, the weirdness5, the awful grandeur6 of this land of Malebolge, sulphurous pits and boiling lakes, a fit dwelling7 place for Minos, infernal judge; the elusive8 beauty of a playing geyser, the iridescent9 sparkle of the water as it leaps the rocky precipice10 and pours down the mountain’s great throat, or the diabolical11 scene of the famous Mud Geyser where,—
A noise, as of a sea in tempest torn
By warring wings. The stormy blast of hell
With restless fury drives the spirits on,
Whirled round and dashed amain with sore annoy.
When arriving before the ruinous sweep,
“Wherefore delay in such a mournful place?
We came within the fosses deep, that moat
This region comfortless, the walls appeared
As they were framed in iron, we had made
Wide circuit ere we reached the place where loud
—Dante.
We had circled the Mammoth18 Hot Springs, down a way by a ladder we entered the Devil’s kitchen. This is a defunct19 geyser. The way was dark and the air hot as the heat penetrated20 the walls from the Hot Springs. The water of these springs is rich in minerals, copper21, iron and sulphur. As the water boils over and evaporates it leaves deposits on the rims22 fretting24 them with a delicate frost work of varied25 and beautiful hues27. Cream and salmon28 deepening into rich shades of red, brown, green and yellow.
The Cleopatra Spring is one of the most beautiful. Located on a mound29 forty feet high[238] and covering an area of three-quarters of an acre, the deep blue water, the sparkling white basin with its pale yellow frost-fretted rim23 rivals the touch of the artist’s brush.
Just below the springs the broad level tract30 in front of the United States barracks covers a treacherous31 burnt-out area. We were standing32 on a veranda33 of the hotel observing the maneuvers34 when one of the cavalry35 horses broke through the thin crust. His rider recovered him and they were off before the treacherous ground gave way. A rope was brought and the soldiers lowered one of their comrades, who dropped thirty-five feet before he struck a landing place. Investigation36 showed the entire platte to be dangerously honeycombed.
Through the Golden Gate we enter Kingman’s Pass. The stupendous walls of golden yellow rock rise sheer hundreds of feet high on either side.
Just as we turned a point in the road such “Ohs” and “Ahs” as the Rustic37 Falls of the Gardener River burst on our sight. The river falls sixty feet into a series of shallow basins of moss38 covered rock. To the sides of the basin cling wavering ferns and delicate spray-kissed flowers.
The most wonderful mountain in the world stands on the shore of Beaver39 Lake. A glass mountain of pure jet black glass, rising skyward in basalt like columns from one hundred to two hundred and fifty feet. The black glass streaked40 here and there with red and yellow glistens41 in the sunshine as peak and pinnacle42 catch, imprison43 and reflect the sun’s rays.
Large blocks have become detached from time to time forming a glass slide into the lake. Obsidian44 is a species of lava45. Pliny says this glass was first found in Ethiopia, but the only glass mountain in the world stands on the shore of Beaver Lake. The Indians used this glass for arrow heads and in making sharp-edged tools.
The swampy46, lily-padded margin47 of Beaver Lake is haunted by wild geese. This lake is the beaver’s own. These industrious48 little animals constructed it by damming up Green Creek49 for a distance of two miles. Some thirty dams sweep in graceful50 curves from side to side each having a fall from two to six feet.
The geyser basins are places of unusual interest and beauty. No scene in the park is lovelier than these areas of bubbling pools, boiling lakes and steaming geysers, at sunrise, when the columns of white steam, tinged51 to a roseate hue26 by the rising sun, ascending52 against the background of dark green pines. Presently,—
Loud-crashing, terrible, a sound that made
Either shore tremble, as if a wind
That ’gainst some forest driving with all his might,
His whirlwind rage, while beasts and shepherds fly.”
—Dante.
Thus warned we moved away just as Old Faithful shot his boiling waters skyward.
“Ask thou no more
Now ’gin rueful wailings to be heard.
The gloomy region shook so terribly
That yet with clammy dews chill my brow.
The sad earth gave a blast.”
—Dante.
And steam and water shot up a column two hundred feet high. The Giant Geyser was playing.
“We the circle crossed
To the next steep, arriving at a well
That boiling pours itself down a foss
—Dante.
This well is the formidable Excelsior Geyser which pours its waters into the Fire Hole River.
The Paint Pots are springs which boil incessantly58 their pasty clay, which boiling over hardens, building up a rim around the pot. In one group of seventeen pots are as many different colors.
The center pot is a pearl gray, while grouped about it are smaller pots of various shades of pink, gray, chocolate, yellow, red, lavender, emerald and sapphire59 blues60 and white, mortar61 thousands of years old that would make the heart of a plasterer glad. Here is a plaster which when hardened, whether by sun or fire, never cracks.
Of a somewhat different character are the chocolate jugs62 on the banks of the Fire Hole River. These springs are rich in iron. The sediment63 hardens as the water pours out, building up gradually a brown jug-like cone64.
The Blue Mud Pot is quite as interesting as the Paint Pots. Its circular basin is twenty feet in diameter. The mud is about the consistency65 of thick plaster. This mud pot presents a beautiful picture as the puffs66 of mud burst with a thud-like noise giving off perfect little rings which recede67 to the sides of the crater. This spring is strongly impregnated with alum. In this vicinity is a spring of pure alum water and several of sulphate of copper.
These springs are clear and deep, having beautiful basins, the rims of which are lined with incrustations of brilliant colors.
In a gloomy wood we came to the Devil’s frying pan, a shallow, hot, boiling spring which sputters68, sizzles and hisses69 equal to any old-time, three legged skillet, sending out sulphurous odors that would delight the nostrils70 of Lucifer himself.
Hell’s half acre is quite as interesting as its name. Here in times gone by Excelsior Geyser shook the earth.
One lovely morning we mounted to our seats in the stage coach, the driver cracked his whip over the heads of the leaders, six creamy white horses pricked71 up their ears, sprang forward at a gallop72 and we were off to the Continental73 Divide.
We had just crossed a glade74 where deer were grazing when a hail storm, a mountain hail storm, overtook us. In five minutes the ground was white, the hail laying two inches deep, and such hail, an Illinois hail storm is tame in comparison.
The horses plunged75 forward, the hail was left behind, and we paused on the Great Divide. Down from this watershed76 the waters flow east and west.
The lovely Lake Shoshone comes into view and presently we are standing on its shore looking down through its blue waters. The elevation77 of this lake is greater than that of its royal neighbor, the Yellowstone.
This most lovely of all American lakes, the Yellow Stone, is perched high in the very heart of the mountains, its blue waters lapping the base of cold, snow-capped peaks, rivals in beauty the far famed Lake Maggiore.
On these beautiful shores fair Nausicaa with her golden ball might have deigned78 to tread the mazes79 of the ball-dance.
The elevation of this lake is marvelous for its size. drop Mount Washington, the highest peak in the White Mountains, into the center of it and the summit would be swept by a current half a mile deep.
Through a pine-clad gorge81 flanked by high bluffs82 the impetuous Yellowstone River makes[244] its way until it leaps the great falls and plunges83 down three hundred and fifty feet to the cañon below.
On the sides of the spray-washed walls grow mosses84 and algæ of every hue of green, ochre, orange, brown, scarlet85, saffron and red. On rugged86 peaks are brown eagles’ nests.
The Grand Cañon of the Yellowstone, would you describe this marvelous gorge, language is inadequate87, words are poor.
Would you paint it, on your palette place all colors yet produced by the ingenuity88 of man. Mix them with rainbow drops. The pale faced moon will lend a shade, the stars another and the sun still another as he drops blood-red down through the mists of the sea. Stir and mix with matchless skill until you have of colors half a hundred and shades as many more. Now boldly dash the stupendous walls, castles, pinnacles89, turrets90, columns, and minarets91 where already they are gleaming a bright vermilion as they from Vulcan’s fiery92 furnace issued long ago.
When you have these colors fixed93 let Phaethon drive down the gorge in his chariot of fire leaving behind the gleam and the glow of it.
Here, the Sioux chiefs, crouching94 by their camp fires muttered their griefs and their woes95. Here Rain in the Face cried out in revenge, revenge on the White chief with the Yellow Hair.
Yonder lay Sitting Bull with his three thousand warriors96 hidden in cleft97 and cave. Into the fateful snare98 dashed the White chief with his pitiful three hundred men. Like a mountain torrent99 Sitting Bull and his braves swept down upon that gallant100 band, and but one was left to tell the story of the Little Big Horn, but one to tell of the gallant stand of Custer and his brave men.
Only two survived of all that noble band, one, Curly, the half-breed scout101, and the other, “Comanche,” the horse of Captain Keogh. Comanche was found several miles from the battle field with seven wounds. He recovered and the secretary of war detailed102 a soldier as his attendant.
Here, too, the Crow took revenge when driven back by the white man. Here they peopled the boiling, hissing103 springs and the steaming geysers with evil spirits, while beyond the mountains lay the Happy Hunting Ground.
A small remnant of this band gathered at the head of the Grand Cañon and there resolve with Spartan104 courage to die rather than be removed to a distant land there to die of homesickness and longing105 for the blue sky and the breath of the sweet air of their beloved mountains.
They built a raft and set it afloat at the foot of the Upper Falls feeling the peace and security that the mountains give, but they were rudely awakened106 one morning by the sharp crack of the white man’s rifle, the soldiers were upon them. Hastily boarding their raft they pushed it out into mid-stream. The strong current gathered the craft tossing it and pitching it onward on its foamy107 crest108. The soldiers gaze in wonder, forgetting to fire. On, on, faster whirls that frail109 craft while above the wild roar of the water floats the death song.
Beyond, yawns a chasm110 three hundred and fifty feet deep, the death chant is lost amidst the roar of the mighty111 torrent. The hardened soldier shudders112 as that lone113 adventurous114 craft, freighted with the remnant of a powerful people, is gathered in the arms of that mighty torrent, hurled115 over the brink116 and dashed to pieces on the cruel rocks below, where the Maid of the Mist washed white each red man’s soul.
On June twenty-seventh last, word was telegraphed over the country that a new geyser had burst forth from an old crater about fifty feet from the famous Fountain Geyser. The eruption117 played from two hundred to two hundred and fifty feet high.
Tired, stage tired, we were snug118 in comforts and blankets and sound asleep one night in August at the Fountain hotel, when about twelve o’clock gongs sounded, bells rang and porters went running about pounding on the doors and crying, what seemed to our sleepy imagination, “Fire,” but presently we heard distinctly the words, the new geyser is playing. “The new geyser is playing,” went echoing down the corridors.
In ten minutes every tourist was out, in all sorts of costumes from blanket to full dress, either shivering on the long veranda or hurrying down to the basin to see the new geyser play, and right royally he did it, too.
Upward into the black night shot a stupendous column of water three hundred feet high. The porters were the first to arrive and playing their red calcium119 lights on the wonderful body of falling water gave us a display of fire and water that must be seen to be appreciated. The now flaming vermilion column rose steadily120 upward, seemingly through the red glare three hundred feet, the delicate, rose colored steam rising much higher, swayed in the breeze, now falling, now lifting, now floating away into the black night a rosy121 cloud.
The hotel cat hurried to the scene of action but lost his bearings and stood fascinated by the magic scene, the hot spray falling about him until some one picked him up and carried him out of danger.
In the reception hall of this hotel an old fashioned fireplace filled with glowing pine logs sent out showers of welcoming sparks. A big green back log sang again the anthem122 of the wild storm-swept mountain forest, while outside the rain came down in torrents123.
The most wonderful features of the Rocky Mountains lie within the confines of Yellowstone Park. The world’s oldest rocks, granite124, gneisse and basalt are found here. Later dynamic action held sway and the region became the center of mountain building on a grand scale. Rocky beds tossed up and down. Next came the reign125 of Vulcan. Fire held sway. Volcanic126 materials overflowed127 the region. Next came the ice age, when glaciers[249] plowed128 down the mountain sides. Just now the hydrothermal agents are most active.
After miles of mountain climbing and five hundred more of staging in the heart of the Rockies, through groves130 of pine firs, spruce and cedar131, along streams and lakes bordered by aspen, willow132 and wild flowers, through glades133 and glens, ravines and gorges134, one begins to get some idea of the vastness, ruggedness135 and grandeur of the mountains and the delicacy136 of the climate. One begins to understand how in average summer temperature of sixty degrees pinks, geraniums, orchids137, mosses, roses and lilies, alternately bathed in sunshine and snow, bloom on, reaching a perfection beyond that of our prairie flowers.
The mountain thistles are beautiful beyond compare. The delicate purple blossoms are borne on slender stems, the dainty green leaves touched with white, drooping139 gracefully140, give the plant more the appearance of an orchid138 than of the common weed it is.
Over in Hayden valley roam fifty head of buffalo141, all that is left of that royal band, the fine for killing142 one of which is five hundred dollars. Deer and elk143 roam ravine and mountain[250] side, sleek144, fat fellows that make you glad that they are under Uncle Sam’s protection. We passed a group of deer in a wooded ravine, their smooth coats shining like satin in the sunshine as they gazed at us out of pathetic brown eyes that had something of the human in them.
“I couldn’t kill one of them innocent creatures if the law permitted me,” said the driver, who was an old mountaineer and loved the things of the mountains.
Now and then one sees a mountain lion. The less noble game abound145 also, the fox, martin, beaver, woodchuck and gopher. Ground squirrels run about the hotels and camps in search of food. Under our window one evening three of these little animals were having a tug146 of war over a bread crust. The crust at last divided, one lost his hold and the other two ran away with the spoil.
The gray squirrels are very numerous, showing little fear of the passer-by as they run along playing tag or race up and down the trunks of great trees.
Both Black and Cinnamon bear haunt the vicinities of the hotels and camps in search of food. A big black fellow was pointed148 out to us one morning who had stolen a ham from one of the camps the night before. The ham had disappeared and there stood Bruin waiting for a chance to steal another. One of the men walked up to him and gave him a slice of bacon, which he took from his hands. When he had eaten it he looked inquiringly about for more. This time the meat was hung up in a tree. Bruin sniffed149 the odor, located the bacon, climbed the tree, knocked the meat down and came down and ate it. Then he sat down on his haunches, folding his paws and looking up at his new-found friend as if asking for more.
At the Fountain hotel are two cubs150, Micky and Anna Rooney. They are very fond of sugar. When offered any food they stand up and reach out their paws for it or they will take it out of your hand.
Micky is a happy rollicking fellow, but Anna is more sedate151, quick of temper and free in the use of her paws when angry. When offended she climbs to the top of her pole and sitting down on the board nailed there refuses to come down for anything less than a lump of sugar.
As these bears are still mere152 babies they are fed milk from a bottle. They stand up, clasp the bottle in their paws and proceed to drink the milk through a hole in the cork153.
One evening something was wrong with Micky’s bottle. While the attendant was fixing it Micky dropped on his haunches, folded his paws across his chest, holding his head first on one side then on the other, looking very wise the while. The attendant being somewhat slow, Micky dropped to the ground but never once took his eyes off that bottle. While Micky was waiting for his supper Anna had finished hers and was thrusting her paws into the pockets of the attendant in search of candy and sugar.
At another hotel was a Bruin and her two babies. When these youngsters refused to enter the bath tub provided for them the mother would coax154 them to the edge of the tub, push them in, hold them down and give them a good scrub.
The National Park should be extended one hundred miles farther south to the Black-Hole country. The park game descends155 to the Black-Hole during the winter where the hunters lay in wait for it. In this way park buffalo were nearly exterminated156.
Of the natural wonders of the world our country possesses namely: Niagara, Yellowstone Park, Yosemite, Grand Cañon of the Colorado, and the Glacial Coast of Alaska. The Mammoth Cave might take sixth rank, but leaving it out we will not go to Europe, but to the Himalayas for one and to the Andes for the other.
The petrified157 forests are equally as interesting as the geysers. Southwest of Pleasant Valley is a small grove129 of petrified trees. Near Hell-roaring Creek is a massive promontory158, composed of conglomerates160, and numerous beds of sandstones and shales161. Throughout these strata162 are numerous silicified remains163 of trees. Many of the trees are standing upright just as they grew.
On the northern side of Amethyst164 Mountain is another section of strata nearly two thousand feet high. The ground here is strewn with trunks and limbs of trees which have been petrified into a clear white agate165. In one place rows of tree trunks stand out on the ledge166 like the columns of an old ruin. Farther down the[254] mountain side are prostrate167 trunks fifty feet long. The strata in which these trunks are found is composed of coarse conglomerates, greenish sandstone and indurated clay.
These strata contain many vegetable and animal remains. Branches, roots, snakes, fishes, toads168 and fruits. Among these petrified objects one finds the most beautiful crystallizations of all shades of red from the delicate rose to a deep crimson169. As to the trees the woody structure is in many cases well preserved.
Just beyond the eastern boundary of the park lies the Hoodoo region of the Shoshone Mountains. Here, in the very heart of the old Rockies the banshee, ghosts and goblins of all the region round about hold high jinks.
The scenery is wild and rough. The Goblin Mountain itself is over ten thousand feet high and a mile long. The storms of ages have carved the conglomerate159 breccia and volcanic rocks into the most strange, weird4 and fantastic shapes.
The vivid imagination of the Indian sees in these gigantic forms, beasts, birds and reptiles170. Here a couchant tiger and there the huge figure of a Thunder Bird. Yonder a hungry bear sits on his haunches waiting for a passing Indian. In the moonlight strange spectral171 shapes seem to pass in and out these weird labyrinths172. The rocks are all shades and colors. Mysterious sounds in the air above add interest to the most weird scene in the Rockies, a fit setting for the witch scene in Macbeth.
In yonder dark cavern173 the huge cauldron might boil and bubble as the fire lights up the faces of the sinister174 three who stir the grewsome mess, while around yon black bowlder stealthily steals guilty Macbeth.
Which of the grand scenes do I treasure the most? I do not know. I cannot tell. Each in turn holds, fascinates, and enthralls175 the mind. Each becomes in the language of Keats:
Pouring unto us from the heaven’s brink.”
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woes
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warriors
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crimson
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| n.爬行动物，爬虫( reptile的名词复数 ) | |
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spectral
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labyrinths
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cavern
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sinister
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