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[[underlined]] Yellowstone Canon [[/underlined]]

[[underlined]] Aug. 5. [[/underlined]] Followed an old trail up the river & struck the lower end of the cañon. Followed an old trail along the edge & through fallen timber & then up along side of a mountain & lost some time in the woods. Finally struck the main trail & came to some large boiling sulphur springs with jets of steam puffing out & great, stinking pools of water boiling & rolling. Passed a lot more warm and hot springs & then again struck the cañon and followed the edge up to the hotel near the falls & camped at 8 P.M. Too late to set traps.

The views of the cañon are grand & wonderful. The sides are steep or perpendicular & in the deepest places the top is often not over a half a mile wide. The sides are [[strikethrough]] c [[/strikethrough]] most of the way brightly colored yellow, red, or green, & various dark shades. Little pinnacles stick up all along the sides. The river is an emerald green ribbon at the bottom, rapid & foamy. On the east side some 3 miles below the hotel is a little stream falling over the edge of the cañon down in several white strings to near the bottom.

After passing the groupe of mts. to our right we came onto a great plateau which is almost solidly covered with forest. For miles the timber is solid & looks like black velvet. Some large parks show farther up. We came through numerous little meadows & parks.

Aneroid read 8000 at highest edge of cañon & 7700 at camp near hotel.