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Show VALLEY OF 10,000 SMOKES Alaska Has One of the World's Greatest Great-est and Least Known Natural Natu-ral Wonders. One of the world's greatest and least known of natural wonders is the Valley of Ten Thousand Smokes near Mount Katmai in Alaska, a brief description de-scription of which is given in the Century Cen-tury by Andrew J. Stone. The valley is a volcanic depression, from which steaming and smoking gas and lava jets leap into the air by the thousands, some of them no larger than a pencil. Sulphur flowers of every known color and tint have been scattered by the unrest of the internal fires along the valley walls and floors, until looking look-ing at it from a distance it seems one vast welter of paint from a hundred tubes mixed by a mad artist with only a suggestion of a theme. With care one may walk about and mingle with the pools and spouts, and watch with marveling mar-veling eyes streams of boiling water rush into tiny lakes from one direction, direc-tion, while cold streams carrying floating float-ing ice rush in from another, and where the one small body of water carries car-ries every degree of beat from freezing freez-ing up to 212 degrees Fahrenheit. |