. Guide leaflet. eye is at once attracted by the sheer profile of ElCapitan, the most majestic cliff in the Yosemite andperhaps in the world. It projects from the north wall,its top fully 3,000 feet above the valley floor. Directlyopposite stand the three Cathedral Rocks, of nearlyequal height, which form the only promontory that jutsfar out into the valley. From the west end of thispromontory leaps the Bridal Veil Falls, 020 feet in height,its spray suffused with the glory of the rainbow. Eastward beyond El Capitan and the CathedralRocks the valley abruptly regains its full width, and youbeho
. Guide leaflet. eye is at once attracted by the sheer profile of ElCapitan, the most majestic cliff in the Yosemite andperhaps in the world. It projects from the north wall,its top fully 3,000 feet above the valley floor. Directlyopposite stand the three Cathedral Rocks, of nearlyequal height, which form the only promontory that jutsfar out into the valley. From the west end of thispromontory leaps the Bridal Veil Falls, 020 feet in height,its spray suffused with the glory of the rainbow. Eastward beyond El Capitan and the CathedralRocks the valley abruptly regains its full width, and youbehold in an embayment on the right the two CathedralSpires, the frailest rock shafts in the valley. On the leftare the Three Brothers, whose gabled summits rise oneabove another, all built on the same angle, as if designed 6 AMERICAN MUSEUM GUIDE LEAFLET by an architect. The highest, known as Eagle Peak,rises 3,800 feet above the valley. Opposite them standsSentinel Rock, a finely modeled obelisk with a pointed Bridal Veil Falls620 feet high A mile beyond the base of Sentinel Rock nestlesYosemite Village, the main tourist center of the park,and just across the valley, booming amid clouds of pearly nrvvjp^ 1- TL jjirwi <JB --Trg •^»tT^ :\iWiS3f •^^^??.o-^.J ^^Ife iWll ??•??• ? fig w ; •.;;. T^P -<$ BFv^ ^vt,~ HK^^-i, H 1 *^Kiui *P~T JltJS&d P 1 - ^£^ . F. E. Matthea, Photo Yosemite Falls, from the banks of Merced RiverThe upper fall, 1,430 feel in height, is probably the highest fall of its kind inthe world. The lower fall is 320 feet high, anil the total descent of the water fromthe brink of the upland to the floor of the valley is 2,565 feet. The lower fall asseen above is three-fourths of a mile from the camera; the upper fall is nearlyone and a half miles distant. 8 AMERICAN Mr SKIM (HIDE LEAFLET mist, are the Yosemite Falls, most glorious of all thecataracts in the valley. The upper fall, 1,430 feet high,would alone make any valley famous—it is the
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