DESCRIPTION OF THE YELLOWSTONE PARK.—­The Yellowstone National Park extends sixty-five miles north and south, and fifty-five miles east and west, comprising 3,575 square miles, and is all 6,000 feet or more above sea-level.  Yellowstone Lake, twenty miles by fifteen, has an altitude of 7,788 feet.  The mountain ranges which hem in the valleys on every side rise to the height of 10,000 to 12,000 feet, and are always covered with snow.  This great park contains the most striking of all the mountains, gorges, falls, rivers and lakes in the whole Yellowstone region.  The springs on Gardiner’s River cover an area of about one square mile, and three or four square miles thereabout are occupied by the remains of springs which have ceased to flow.  The natural basins into which these springs flow are from four to six feet in diameter and from one to four feet in depth.  The principal ones are located upon terraces midway up the sides of the mountain.  The banks of the Yellowstone River abound with ravines and canons, which are carved out of the heart of the mountains through the hardest of rocks.  The most remarkable of these is the canon of Tower Creek and Column Mountain.  The latter, which extends along the eastern bank of the river for upward of two miles, is said to resemble the Giant’s Causeway.  The canon of Tower Creek is about ten miles in length and is so deep and gloomy that it is called “The Devil’s Den.”  Where Tower Creek ends the Grand Canon begins.  It is twenty miles in length, impassable throughout, and inaccessible at the water’s edge, except at a few points.  Its rugged edges are from 200 to 500 yards apart, and its depth is so profound that no sound ever reaches the ear from the bottom.  The Grand Canon contains a great multitude of hot springs of sulphur, sulphate of copper, alum, etc.  In the number and magnitude of its hot springs and geysers, the Yellowstone Park surpasses all the rest of the world.  There are probably fifty geysers that throw a column of water to the height of from 50 to 200 feet, and it is stated that there are not fewer than 5,000 springs; there are two kinds, those depositing lime and those depositing silica.  The temperature of the calcareous springs is from 160 to 170 degrees, while that of the others rises to 200 or more.  The principal collections are the upper and lower geyser basins of the Madison River, and the calcareous springs on Gardiner’s River.  The great falls are marvels to which adventurous travelers have gone only to return and report that they are parts of the wonders of this new American wonderland.

DESIGNATIONS OF GROUPS OF ANIMALS.—­The ingenuity of the sportsman is, perhaps, no better illustrated than by the use he puts the English language to in designating particular groups of animals.  The following is a list of the terms which have been applied to the various classes: