ocr: straight and falling, first 109 feet, at Upper Falls, then immediately again at Lower Falls, 308 feet, almost twice the drop of Niagara. This is the Yellowstone's Grand Canyon, a rainbow of rhyolite where John Muir wrote, "All the carth hereabouts seems to be paint." and Rudyard Kipling exclaimed," "Thes sides of that gulf were one wild welter of colour- crimson, emerald, cobalt, ochre, amber, honey splashed with port-wine, snow-white, vermilion, lemon, and silver- grey, in wide washes." The Yellowstone then fairly screams through Black Canyon, a cre- scendo of white water, and crashes out of ...
