The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-09-06

is green, excepting a strip Of yellow along
tgv RIM.
tmiLel up the basin is to be found tho
Mus!rc en- pool. The sides Of the pool
beneath the waters edge are covered with
"A fnrgi growth, of the deepest green inn
aginablc. The fungi on the bottom Is
shared something like "A mushroom, but
resembles cactl TO be found in Texas and
Mexico. The very center Of the pool Is
as back as ink.
Next comes the Gold pool some ten feet
IN diameter The formation beneath the
Watef IS VeIy soft. and of the color OF
gold. IL is often referred to as the "Amerl-
can Eage' the color resembling that OF
a gold cciu. The water flowing from it
leaves red and green stain behind.
BEYOND TIE Gold pool is the Buffalo pool.
1t Is huge and very deep, and of deep
g'eeii color At the bottom, some fifty
lset below, can be seen the remains OF .
bdudlo which foil in the hot water twen-
ty-iiNc years ago. Tho formation in tho
interior o. this pool Is very soft, haviEs
NJ soEdiiicadon, being of sandy char
ac."r.
Not far from this is Lariat pool. It re-
semDles lariat and received it's name
from that, The pool forms the loop Of
the lariat, aud the overflow very forcibly
resembles the remainder of Ahe rome II
HoWs through canal-lke formation OF
silica, winding around as a rope would
I've w., II thrown carelessly upon the ground
The formation in this pool Is hard
OFF 10 the south. a short distance arc
the FIVE Sisters. They are five good
sized pools. very close together, being con-
.eeteu below the ground, The.
fountain in the first pool is the color
OF turquoise, composed of fine sand IT
has different appearance from anv other
spring la the park, as the sand IS full Of
ridges running from the waters edge to
the bottom, the effect being very peculiar
Next to II is "a white spring the forma-
ton being little harder than that found
IN the turquoise. Next to 1t IS a yellow
pool, and beyond that two more Of differ
ent shades of blue. The formation In the
yellow pool is as hard as steel; that in the
blue one being harder than the turquoise
but not as hard as the yellow one.
A couple of hundred feet due east from
the Five Sisters is the Black Warrior. 1t
Is a geyser which plays constantly. throw
ing water thirty feet into the air. The
crater is of a creamy wilderness. rising OUT
OF the very center of a large basin, the
bottom OF which IS as black as ink. Just
beyond this is Fire Hole lake. the hottest
body of water Ia the world
As you stand looking east across she.
take, the water is OF a deep blue color.
Looking towards the west, t has the APP
pearance OF being an ordinary red. At the
east end of the lake blue flames can be
seen darting up from between the black
rocks nIty feet or more below the surface
The flames come almost TO the top, maxi
ing the water boil up about four inches
The temperature of the water averages
2l2 degrees, and the steam arising from Ii
IS scalding hot. This lake is surrounded
by 100 small openings in the ground all
containing boiling hot water The forma-
ton in these pools is like that in the lake,
very black. Where there is any color at
all 1t is either a dark shade Of yellow or
a green. Near this lake is "a fafr-sza1
oblong pool of green water. AT one end
silver bubbles are constantly rising 10 the
surface from the unseen depths below.
while at the other end forked tongue of
blue flame leaps upward from between
two dark rocks some distance below.