The Yellowstone National Park: Historical and DescriptiveChittenden, Hiram Martin
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The Yellowstone National Park: Historical and Descriptive
Chittenden, Hiram Martin
Yellowstone National Park
_Rainbow Falls_ (140)--R: 4--1885--U. S. G.
S.--Characteristic.--Height includes total of three falls.
_Rustic Falls_ (70)--D: 6--1878--Norris--Characteristic.
_Silver Cord Cascade_--G: 9--1885--U. S. G. S.--Characteristic.
_Terraced Falls_--R: 4--1885--U. S. G. S.--Characteristic.
_Tower Falls_ (132)--D: 10--1870--Washburn Party--Characteristic.
"By a vote of a majority of the party this fall was called Tower
Fall."--Washburn.
"At the crest of the fall the stream has cut its way through
amygdaloid masses, leaving tall spires of rock from 50 to 100 feet in
height, and worn in every conceivable shape.... Several of them stand
like sentinels on the very brink of the fall."--Doane.
_Undine Falls_ (60)--D: 7--1885--U. S. G. S.--Characteristic.
_Union Falls_--Q: 4--1885--U. S. G. S.--Characteristic.
_Virginia Cascade_ (60)--H: 7--1886--By E. Lamartine, at that time
foreman in charge of government work in Park.--For the wife of the
Hon. Chas. Gibson, President of the Yellowstone Park Association.
_Wraith Falls_ (100)--D: 7--1885--U. S. G. S.--Characteristic.
_Yellowstone Falls_ (Upper 112; Lower 310)--H: 9--From the river which
flows over them.[CM]
[CM] Record of the various measurements of the Upper and Lower Falls
of the Yellowstone River.
Folsom (1869) Upper Fall, 115 feet. Method not stated. Lower Fall, 350
feet. Method not stated.
Doane (1870) Upper Fall, 115 feet. Line.
Langford (1870) Lower Fall, 350 feet. Line stretched on an incline.
Moore's Sketch (1870) Lower Fall, 365 feet. Method not stated.
Hayden (1871) Upper Fall, 140 feet. Method not stated. Lower Fall, 350
feet. Method not stated.
Gannett (1872) Upper Fall, 140 feet. Barometer. Lower Fall, 395 feet.
Comparison of angles subtended by Falls and by a tree of known height.
Jones (1873) Upper Fall, 150 feet. Barometer. Lower Fall, 329 feet.
Barometer.
Ludlow (1875) Upper Fall, 110 feet. Line. Lower Fall, 310 feet. Line.
Gannett (1878) Upper Fall, 112 feet. Line. Lower Fall, 297 feet. Line
stretched on an incline.
U. S. G. S. (Recent) Upper Fall, 109 feet. Method not stated. Lower
Fall, 308 feet. Method not stated.
Chittenden (1892) Upper Fall, 112 feet between point of first descent
and level of pool below. Measured by means of a transit instrument.
Width of gorge at brink of fall, and a few feet above water surface,
48 feet.
APPENDIX A.
V.
LAKES.
[Figures in parentheses denote elevations.]
_Beach Lake_ (8,150)--K: 8--1885--U. S. G. S.--Characteristic.
_Beaver Lake_ (7,415)--F: 6--1879--Norris--Characteristic.
_Beula Lake_ (7,530)--R: 5--1872--U. S. G. S.--Characteristic.
[Illustration: JAMES BRIDGER.]
_Bridger Lake_ (7,900)--R: 13--Name a fixture prior to 1870.--For
James Bridger, the Daniel Boone of the Rockies, and one of the most
remarkable products of the trapping and gold-seeking eras.
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