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 . \ :.2^^<^^^^^:f^^^.M ^^s-^. MOUNT KING, LOOKING EAST, FROM CAMP 180. consists of granite masses, with spurs projecting out from them, and em-bracing basins of bare rock, each haAing a small lake at the bottom. Theonly living things visible in these valleys are the grasses in the smallmeadows which border the lakes. Eveiywhere else are to be seen onlysmooth, bare rocks, or granitic debris in steeply-sloping j^iles at the baseof the precipices. The
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 . \ :.2^^<^^^^^:f^^^.M ^^s-^. MOUNT KING, LOOKING EAST, FROM CAMP 180. consists of granite masses, with spurs projecting out from them, and em-bracing basins of bare rock, each haAing a small lake at the bottom. Theonly living things visible in these valleys are the grasses in the smallmeadows which border the lakes. Eveiywhere else are to be seen onlysmooth, bare rocks, or granitic debris in steeply-sloping j^iles at the baseof the precipices. The crests of the ridges are thin and shattered, — so thinthat, in some cases, they could only be traversed by hitching the body overwhile sitting astride of them. At the head of the noith fork, along the main crest of the Sierra, is arange of peaks, from 13,500 to 14,000 feet high, which we called thePalisades. These were unlike the rest of the crest in outline and color, andwere doubtless volcanic ; they were very grand and fantastic in shape, likethe rocks seen on the Silver Mountain trail near Ebbetts Pass. (See PlateIII.) All doubts as to the nature of these peaks Av
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