Glimpses of our national parks .. . r by the Government has opened to allone of the finest scenic sections in America, a country dotted withsplendid snowy summits, grown with glorious forests, and wateredwith rushing trout streams. THE WATER WHEELS And thus is added to the amazing water spectacle for wdiich thevalley is famous still another kind of Yosemite waterfall destinedto world-wide celebrity. The Tuolumne River, descending sharplyto the head of the Hetch Hetchy Valley, becomes, in John Muirsphrase, one wild, exulting, onrushing mass of snowy purple bloomspreading over glacial waves of g
Glimpses of our national parks .. . r by the Government has opened to allone of the finest scenic sections in America, a country dotted withsplendid snowy summits, grown with glorious forests, and wateredwith rushing trout streams. THE WATER WHEELS And thus is added to the amazing water spectacle for wdiich thevalley is famous still another kind of Yosemite waterfall destinedto world-wide celebrity. The Tuolumne River, descending sharplyto the head of the Hetch Hetchy Valley, becomes, in John Muirsphrase, one wild, exulting, onrushing mass of snowy purple bloomspreading over glacial waves of granite without any definite channel,gliding in magnificent silver plumes, dashing and foaming throughhuge bowlder dams, leaping high in the air in wheel-like whirls, dis-playing glorious enthusiasm, tossing from side to side, doubling,glinting, singing in exuberance of mountain energy. The crowningfeature of this mad spectacle are the water wheels which rise 50 feetor more into the air when the slantinc; river strikes Photograph by W. L. Huber Wateewheels in the Tuolumne River, Yosemite National PakkThe sloping current, striking projecting roclcs, rises fifty feet or more in tlie air 20 OUR NATIONAL PARKS. In iuUlition to its many other attractions, tlie Yosemite NationalPark contains three groves of sequois, the celebrated Big Trees ofCalifornia. One of these trees, the Grizzly Giant, has a diameter feet and a height of 204 feet. IV A THE SEQUOIA NATIONAL PARK Special Characteristic: Largest and Oldest Trees in the World XD they said, Go to, let us build us a city and a tower whose topmay reach unto is recorded, in the eleventh chapter of Genesis, the buildingof the Tower of Babel. While this tower was doubtless still standing,and a hundred years or two before the birth of Abraham, a tiny seedin the warm soil of a mountain slope on quite the opposite side of theworld thrust into the light of day a slender green spike Avhich wasdestined, during
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