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About The west shore. (Portland, Or.) 1875-1891 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 1, 1887)
YELLOWSTONE PARK AND ITS FLORA. S3 Ismndary, is located the terraced group of tlie fled wood, ml U many of tlie s u:en, Mammoth hot taring. About here, anil near- wisjld lead u to suppixr that the ancient fr ly around wan lake and Indian creek, arp large, est were of mm h greater uiagiiifiYcmv thau at open, gi-vorrvJ Miva. TIkj t.o-a of lira xwelil. Gallatin range are well clothed with forest up to . Hie Yellowslie park, like most mountain the timber line, which, in the irk, varies from regions where terrestrial radiation U great, ha, nine thousand (our hundred to nine thousand during the summer months, great extremes i seven hundred feet. The to'mof the long ridges diurnal tem-rature, although the day tcmrr Moping westward are, in Home cases, lre. ature in low mt generally alve sewnty-lhe From the Gallatin range southward, along the degree, Fahrenheit. Frequent summer frt western liorder of the park, extend the Made- an a characteristic Mature. This nl;e t4 Hon plateau. ItH southern limit in the Pitch- climnte, coupled with a high relative humidity, stone plateau (eight thousand seven hundretl that is, fr the Ikwky mountain region, aYiinta feet), at the base of which, on the north and for llie furl of itn U-ing deiixcly timtrrvd. A cant, lie Mioshone and I.ewis lake. The wry wry copious rainfall I shown in marsh, spring, flat top of the plateau in more than half covered stream and lake. From oWrvstsTi taken at with grassy parks, hut the aide are heavily tim Yellowstone lake (seven thmiMitid seven hum In-red.. To the westward it slopes down to the drvd and forty feet), from July lth l AuguM low, open, Bwampy area of the Falls river ba loth, 1hh, we obtained the following: Atrragc sin, in the extreme southwest comer of the f readings of minimum thermometer, whlrli, rk. On the Madison plateau, as elsewhere rw tically, is the lcm-rature at sinirie, twi-n throughout the region, are scattered small, orn ty-nine and seven-tenths ; average of iwno'i L k wrks and meadows, hut, taken as a whole, it is p. m. readings, sixty-flve and six-leiilhs; am heavily timlrred, and is cut by numerous dry, age of reading of maximum thermometer, from rocky canyons. It has an average altitude of August 1st to August l.Mh, sixty-eight ami three about eight Uiousaud five hundred feet, and tenths. The greatest reeordd teinrrature was ? from Fhoshone lake it i traversed, in a north seventy-eight degree, ami llie lowest, twenty ? ...... .! . -t !!..!! 11. .. .-I.... - ,l westerly uirwwou, vj mc luuiunui" ... ..... At the foot of tlie abrupt eastern slope of this main area of the park, U from about May lt plateau lie the I7pier and Lower geyser basins, to S temU r 1st. Tle lower and dryer -in a wilderness of forest. Tlie Fire-hole river, tion, up to seven thousand feet, are In lln ir draining these areas, flowing northward, meet greenest garb aUsil July 1st, and the suUlpioe the Gibbon river, from the northeast, the latter ami alpine regions early in August. Wiu-n in draining the Norrw geyser basin, and heading vigorous growth, vcgelatuiti iLrsnMircm loir on tlie plateau northwest of the Washbunie affected in the least by a teiiirraturr 4 U n iU- ft . iiniiimr fi.rni tim vntm la-low fnfiiiiif. Isit a little later ill llr nillgv. tiiK'm: mv nnu"i hihi',i - v. Madison which, in ita course westward, has sea! its cflVta are apwrent, when the uiil cut a gorge two thousand feet deep through tlie have lost mm U it tlieir vitality, Tle . I.ange Madison plaU'au. Within the ark the Madi from Uie luxuriance of Augut to llie ilwuy U son river hasa drainage area t4 alsmt s-ven f-eptemU-r U alni4. ti m rally, by I-.t. iii hundred s-ptarc miles., . . rr bMli smm low fallen, u, lie u,- lle gr-siml n,A .n.,n of the YellowsUnie park has Iren for a ly or two. the Kfne of gnat volcanic, activity, the rock Tlie mik ha miflrreJ, at yar.u lirnr. Immi i Uing mainly of igueou origin, with the ex.f - the ravag.- uf fire. Tlirre are 4Mjr bun tion of the Uallatin range, which is, in a great dred square imk-a 4 Uiml fil. (Her a lar irt m-liuientary. Tlie Jateaus have Wtn i-mion uf tl ngi-i will Ir Uml A f.miiJ bv great lava flows, icincipally rhyJite. fallen limber in lit green UnJi. l'r4. Tim ruggl Yellowstone range is mainly mii TV are m aieaa i4 ci.leia4 extent 1 1-1 of volcanic btm ias ami nmgk-i-ratea. wlmli are m Uv a,ere.i. ami ai iorf eir I The priiu iil geymx are, are those ,4 the l i.ti.a are nnere.1 with a luxurtant gnitl, ,4 I ,erxnl Lower geyser rins, Nria p-)-r ba- pa- and uk ! Mge bruJi. Tb- uM !: wi,..iwM).v. .-vM.r hasin. and the Heart eatriijve 4 ll- are in the nortlaM i .tl iln.t.ls of boiling sinn in t vicinity uf Maiuim4l. A .,in, are attereJ over the whole region, and have about the n,th of lb. 11 lork, ami ak formed ..tensive deposit, mainly calcars, this stream TUfc-wr, toMt rre.u, while Uh- a tlie geyW are a form U sil. regi,-, f Ml. h Ua. ktafl calWgevWe. The great quantitir. of silici- Ieer rrrrk, hw Uke, ami U lrr U