3-065-942 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

The Yellowstone Lake Region of North America: Mammoth Hot Springs on Gardiner's River, 1874. 'At the base of the Rocky Mountains...is a natural wonderland. It is a volcanic region of boiling springs and silicious incrustations...The United States Congress...ordained that the whole tract of unoccupied land, measuring fifty-five miles by sixty-five miles, should be for ever preserved as a National Park for public enjoyment and the scientific study of its phenomena...A small book describing the "Wonders of the Yellowstone Region," written by Mr. James Richardson, was lately published...We are indebted to Mr. Serjeant Sleigh, who has travelled in that part of North America, for the use of some finely-executed photographs, taken under the direction of Professor F. V. Hayden, the official geologist in charge of the Government expedition three years ago. A set of these photographs was presented by the United States Government to Mr. Serjeant Sleigh...[Our engraving] represents the "Mammoth Hot Springs" of Gardiner's River. The white silicious deposit here covers the side of the mountain for a length of one mile, and to the height of nearly 1000 ft.; it forms successive terraces, in which basins are hollowed oat by the water falling from above'. From "Illustrated London News", 1874.