exterior surface,three feet in height and five feet in diameterat its base, and having an oval orifice twenty-four by thirty-six and one-half inches indiameter, with scolloped edges. Not one oftheir company supj30sed it was a geyser; andamong so many wonders it had almost escapednotice. While they… … THE GIANTESS GEYSER. WONDERS OF THE WILDERNESS, &C. 121 height. The stream did not deflect more thanfour or five degrees from a vertical line, andthe eruption lasted eighteen minutes. Theynamed it the Bee Hive. How many more geysers there are in thislocality it would he impossible to…
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