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Excerpt from The National Geographic Magazine, Vol. 23: June, 1912 Four miles from the northern entrance to the park are the Mammoth Hot Springs terraces, which have been built up by the travertine deposited by the hot waters. From below the glimmering terraces present the appearance of a mass of ice. And snow. In places the slope is steep, as if a large portion of it had been torn away; at other points the descent is broken by series of terraces of varying height, the front of each terrace being delicately fluted or molded into the most exquisite tracery. Impressive as are the terraces fro-m below, the scene from the summit is even more varied and beautiful. To the east is the escarpment of Mount Evarts; to the northwest the crest of Electric Peak stands sentinel at the boundary of the park, while around and below are the brilliantly colored pools which form the outlets of the springs. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.