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 . THE YOSEMITE VALLEY. 83 Fig. FOIIT HILL, — NEAR KAILROAB FLAT. Capital!, where two perpendicular siii-fiices of smooth granite, more than 3,000feet higli, meet each other at a right angle. It is sufficient to look for amoment at the veitical faces of El Capitan and the Bridal Veil Rock, turneddown the Valley, or away from the direction in which the eroding forcesmust have acted, to be able to say that aqueous erosion could not have beenthe agent
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 . THE YOSEMITE VALLEY. 83 Fig. FOIIT HILL, — NEAR KAILROAB FLAT. Capital!, where two perpendicular siii-fiices of smooth granite, more than 3,000feet higli, meet each other at a right angle. It is sufficient to look for amoment at the veitical faces of El Capitan and the Bridal Veil Rock, turneddown the Valley, or away from the direction in which the eroding forcesmust have acted, to be able to say that aqueous erosion could not have beenthe agent employed to do any such work. The squarely cut re-enteringangles, like those below El Capitan, and between Cathedral Rock and theSentinel, or in the lllilouette canon, were never produced by ordinary less could any such cause be called in to account for the peculiarformation of the Half Dome, the vertical portion of which is all al)ove theordinary level of the walls of the Valley, rising 2,000 feet, in sublimeisolation, above any point which could have been reached by denudingagencies, even supposing the current of water to have filled the wholeValley. Much
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