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 . nearCamp 175, was sublime, strongh resembling the valley of the Yosemite insome of its grandest features. It curves but little, so that the view is unob-structed. Great surfaces and precipices of naked granite are seen, often over1,000 feet high, but seldom vertical, although sloping at a very high angle;these sxufaces are ever^^where in the valley rounded and polished. Sidecanons of the same character, but still more precipitous, open into the maino
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 . nearCamp 175, was sublime, strongh resembling the valley of the Yosemite insome of its grandest features. It curves but little, so that the view is unob-structed. Great surfaces and precipices of naked granite are seen, often over1,000 feet high, but seldom vertical, although sloping at a very high angle;these sxufaces are ever^^where in the valley rounded and polished. Sidecanons of the same character, but still more precipitous, open into the mainone. From Camp 171, Mount Brewer was twice ascended, on the 2d and 4thof July, by passing up the valley in which the camp was situated, andwhich divides at the base of the mountain, extending up to the crest of theridge. Its sides were foimd to be very steep up to above 12,000 feet, THE HIGH SIERRA. 121 the southern one being an uhnost vortical wall of 1,000 feet in height. Thegranite of this region is hard, not very coarse, and of a light ash-gray color,with a pearly lustre when seen in gi-eat masses. It is intersected with veins Fisc. MOUNT BREWEi:, FHOM A POINT TITKEE MILES DISTANT, LOOKING EAST. of qnartz and also of feldspar, and with some made np of a mixture of boththese minerals; these veins were rarely more than two or three feet inthickness. In general, however, the rock is remarkably homogeneous andalmost destitute of accidental minerals, a little epidote being the only oneobsei-ved in this region. The view from the sunnnit of Mount Brewer is one of the most sublime16 122 THE YOSKMITE GUIDE-BOOK. which it is possible to obtain, even in this sublimcst portion of the snowy peaks, rising to over 11,000 feet in elevation, cover a breadthof more than tweiity-Hve miles, and the point of view on the summit of thismountain is such, that the observer is placed in the very midst of this grandassemblage. High peaks, sharp ridges bristling with pinnacles, rocky am
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