. Sierra Club bulletin . LAKE RAMPART; WEST SHORE OF LAKE rampart; UPFER BASIN OF RAFFERTY CREEK. The Hetch-Hetchy Valley. 221 Extracts from State Geologist Professor J. Yosemite Guide-Book (Published 1874) on THE HETCH-HETCHY VALLEY, THE BIG TUOLUMNE MEADOWS, andTHE TUOLUMNE CANON, showing their relationship, etc. The Hetch-Hetchy is 3,650 feet above the sea-level,or 300 feet below the Yosemite; it is three miles longeast and west, but is divided into two parts by a spurof granite which nearly closes it up in the center. Theportion of the valley below this spur is a large
. Sierra Club bulletin . LAKE RAMPART; WEST SHORE OF LAKE rampart; UPFER BASIN OF RAFFERTY CREEK. The Hetch-Hetchy Valley. 221 Extracts from State Geologist Professor J. Yosemite Guide-Book (Published 1874) on THE HETCH-HETCHY VALLEY, THE BIG TUOLUMNE MEADOWS, andTHE TUOLUMNE CANON, showing their relationship, etc. The Hetch-Hetchy is 3,650 feet above the sea-level,or 300 feet below the Yosemite; it is three miles longeast and west, but is divided into two parts by a spurof granite which nearly closes it up in the center. Theportion of the valley below this spur is a large openmeadow, a mile in length, and from an eighth to half amile in width, with excellent grass, timbered only alongthe edge. The upper part of the valley is a mile andthree quarters long, and from an eighth to a third of amile wide, well timbered and grassed. The walls of thisvalley are not quite so high as those of Yosemite; butstill anywhere else than in California they would beconsidered as wonderfully grand. On the north side ofHetch-Hetchy is a perpendi
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