The national parks portfolio . , incomparable Valley is merely a crack sevenmiles long in a scenic masterpiece of eleven hundred square miles!John Muir loved the Valley and crystallized its fame in still more he loved the National Park, which he describes as includinginnumerable lakes and waterfalls and smooth silky lawns; the noblest forests, I he loftiest granite domes, the deepest ice-sculptured canyons, the brightestrystalline pavements, and snowy mountains soaring into the sky twelve andhirteen thousand feet, arrayed in open ranks and spiry-pinnacled groups par-ially separated
The national parks portfolio . , incomparable Valley is merely a crack sevenmiles long in a scenic masterpiece of eleven hundred square miles!John Muir loved the Valley and crystallized its fame in still more he loved the National Park, which he describes as includinginnumerable lakes and waterfalls and smooth silky lawns; the noblest forests, I he loftiest granite domes, the deepest ice-sculptured canyons, the brightestrystalline pavements, and snowy mountains soaring into the sky twelve andhirteen thousand feet, arrayed in open ranks and spiry-pinnacled groups par-ially separated by tremendous canyons and ampitheaters; gardens on theirunny brows, avalanches thundering down their long white slopes, cataractsoaring gray and foaming in the crooked rugged gorges, and glaciers in theirshadowy recesses working in silence, slowly completing their sculptures; new-born lakes at their feet, blue and green, free or encumbered with drifting ice-)ergs like miniature Arctic Oceans, shining, sparkling, calm as The Yosemite Valley from Glacier PointThe Upper and Lower Yosemite Falls are here shown in partial profile
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