The "giantess" Geyser

Our seorch for new wonders leading ug across the Fire Hole Kiver, wo ascended a gentle, incrusted slope, and caine suddenly upon a large oval aperturo with scallopud edges, the diameters of whioh wern eightcen and twenty-five feet, the sides oorFugatsd and covnred with a grayiehwhito BÍli(ániscispoBÍt which wai úistiuctly visible at the deptii oL one-hundrod feet below the surfuce. No water could !!■ iiiscovejiid, but w could disiinctly hear it gurgling and boiling at a great distanoe below. Suddenly it began to ri se, boüirig and spluttering, and atnding out huge maases f gteam, causing a general ttampede of our coiapany, driving us somc distancc froin our point of obsoi-vation. AVhcn within about forty feet of the Burface it became Btationary, ad we retumed to look down upon it. It was foaming and Burging at a terrible rate, oooagionslly emittíng small jets of hot water nearly to tho inouth of the orifice. All at once it soemed seizcd with a ful spasm, and rose with incredi ble rapidity, hanliy affording us timo to íioo to a safo distance, whon it burst from tho orifico with tcrrific momentum, rising in a column tho full size of this immense aperture to the hoight of sixty feet; and through and out of the apex of this rast aquoons maas, five or six losser jets or round columns of water, varying in size from eix to fiftcen inches in diameter, woro projeoted to thu marvelloua height of two hundred and fifty feet. These losser jets, so mucli bighei than tho main column, and shooting through it, doubtloss procced from auxiliary pipos leading iuto the principal orífice near theViottom, where the explosire forcé is greater. If the thoory that wator by constant boiling becomes explosivo when freed from air be true, this theory rationally accounts for .1 our irregularities in the oruptions of ie geysers. This grand eruption continued for winty minutes, and was the most magifioent sight we ever witnesscd. We wore cLTniing on the sido of the geyser nearest ie svm, the gleams of which lilhd tlio gparkling column of water and spray with myriade of rainbows, whose arches were constantly changing, - dipping and ftuttering hither and tEither, and disappearing only to be sneceeded by others, again and again, amid the aqeoug coltunn, wilile the minute glóbulos into which tho Bpent eta were diffused when falling sperkled liko a showor of diamonds, and ai-ound i:orv s]i;i'lnv v)l!c1[ the di nsor clouds of rapor, interruptiñg tbc sim's rays, oaw ipon tin; column, could bc seen a luminmis cirole radian! writh "11 Uw oolors of lic prism, and resembliiiK íl( llo of glory representad in pamtings as eniroling the head of Divinity. All tha we had previouslj v. ■. emod tanie o coinparison with the pcrfoot grandeur and beauty of thig display. ïwo of these wonderful eruptions ooonrred during the kwenty-two hours we remaincd in th( valley. The geyser we named " ïho