Glimpses of our national parks . garden—a mere crack 7 or 8 miles long by less than 1 mile widein 1,125 miles of scenic wilderness so beautiful and varied thatadequate description reads like romance. The irregular eastern boundary is the crest of the Sierra, a ram-part of tremendous granite peaks buttressed by pinnacled spurs ofnatures noblest gothic, spattered by snow fields and mimic glaciers, OUR I^ATIONAL, PAEKS. 21. Birds-eye view of Yosemite Valley looking eastwarrl to the crest of the Sierra Nevada. 1. Clouds Rest. 17. 2 Half Dome. 18. 3. jNIount Watkins. 19. 4. Basket Dome. 20. 5. Nort
Glimpses of our national parks . garden—a mere crack 7 or 8 miles long by less than 1 mile widein 1,125 miles of scenic wilderness so beautiful and varied thatadequate description reads like romance. The irregular eastern boundary is the crest of the Sierra, a ram-part of tremendous granite peaks buttressed by pinnacled spurs ofnatures noblest gothic, spattered by snow fields and mimic glaciers, OUR I^ATIONAL, PAEKS. 21. Birds-eye view of Yosemite Valley looking eastwarrl to the crest of the Sierra Nevada. 1. Clouds Rest. 17. 2 Half Dome. 18. 3. jNIount Watkins. 19. 4. Basket Dome. 20. 5. North Dome. 21. 6. Washington Column. oo 7. Iloyal Arches. 23. 8. Mirror Lake and mouth of Tenaya 24. Canyon. 25. 9. Camp Curry, 30. Yosemite Village. 2G. 11. Sentinel Bridge. 27. 12. New Camp Yosemite. 28. 13. Head of Yosemite Falls. 29. 14. Eagle Peak (the Three Brothers). 30. 15. El Capitan. 31. 16. Ribbon Falls. 32. Merced River. El Capitan Bridge and Moraine. Big Oak Flat Road. Wawona Road. Bridalveil Falls. Cathedral Rocks. Cathedral Spires. Sentinel Rock. Glacier Point and new Glacier Point Point Road-Sentinel Yosemite Lake Lake Lodge. 22 OUR NATIOiSTAL PARKS. a mountain barrier uncrossable by road except at one point, loftyTioga Pass. Westward from the perpetual snows of this stupendouswall flow a million streams, which converge
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