The Yosemite guide-book : a description of the Yosemite Valley and the adjacent region of the Sierra Nevada, and of the big trees of California . d on an equal scale of horizontal and vertical distances. The northern rim {a) is about 1,100 feet above the bottom (h); thesouthern one (c) rises in a sharp ridge 1,606 feet above b; in some places c dis a vertical wall, in others a steep slope. The distance from a to c is a 118 THE YOSEMITE GUIDE-BOOK. little less than a mile. The Kettle is ojjen at the north-northeast end, andextends as a yreen valley some six miles, to the south fork of Kings lli
The Yosemite guide-book : a description of the Yosemite Valley and the adjacent region of the Sierra Nevada, and of the big trees of California . d on an equal scale of horizontal and vertical distances. The northern rim {a) is about 1,100 feet above the bottom (h); thesouthern one (c) rises in a sharp ridge 1,606 feet above b; in some places c dis a vertical wall, in others a steep slope. The distance from a to c is a 118 THE YOSEMITE GUIDE-BOOK. little less than a mile. The Kettle is ojjen at the north-northeast end, andextends as a yreen valley some six miles, to the south fork of Kings are several small domes and pinnacles on the east side, and in someplaces the gi-anite along the rim forms a parapet, which has a strikingresemblance to an artificial structm-e, as the rock is most beautifully andregularly bedded, so that the wall seems to vie with the most finishedmason-work in execution. Jhe annexed woodcut (Fig. IG) will show theexact api)earance of a portion of this wall, which is in some places so thinthat the light can be seen shining through between the cracks. It is fromeight to twenty feet high. Fis. RIM OF THE KETTLE. This rim of the Kettle is a beautiful illustration of the concentric or dome-structure of the granite of this region. The dotted lines in show the bedding or lamination of the rock, in the cross-section of thewhole, and Fig. 17 explains how the parapet has been formed by the wear-ing away of a part of the concentrically-laminated granite near the peculiar crater-like cavity .in the granite is typical of many others seenafterwards in this region, the origin of which it seems impossible to refer toany ordinary denudation, or to the action of glaciers. These cavities were THE HIGH SIERRA. 119
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