What to see in America . side,giving it a marked like-ness to a slender veil ofwhite cloth of delicatetexture. The Indianname for this fall meantthe Spirit of the EvilWind. The Indians thought its influence baleful, theyheard the murmur of ghostly voices in the sounds of itsfalling, they felt the breath of a destroying angel in the coolair that drifted away from it. There was ill omen merelyin passing it. Across the valley is a very tiny waterfallknown as the Maidens Tear. It is so called because it isso far from the Bridal Veil. The upper Yosemite Fall meas-ures 1430 feet, the Lower Fall, 320
What to see in America . side,giving it a marked like-ness to a slender veil ofwhite cloth of delicatetexture. The Indianname for this fall meantthe Spirit of the EvilWind. The Indians thought its influence baleful, theyheard the murmur of ghostly voices in the sounds of itsfalling, they felt the breath of a destroying angel in the coolair that drifted away from it. There was ill omen merelyin passing it. Across the valley is a very tiny waterfallknown as the Maidens Tear. It is so called because it isso far from the Bridal Veil. The upper Yosemite Fall meas-ures 1430 feet, the Lower Fall, 320 feet, and the total dropfrom crest to river, including intermediate cascades, is halfa mile. The slender Ribbon Fall makes a vertical drop of2300 feet, Nevada Fall 600, and Vernal Fall 300 feet. In the park are three groves of the giant sequoias. TheMariposa Grove, which is by far the most important of thethree, contains about five hundred and fifty of these them is the Grizzly Giant, which has a diameter of. BuBBs Creek Falls, Sequoia Park California 483 thirty feet and a height of two hundred and four feet. Thegrove is a thirty-two-mile stage ride from the valley. Someof the other species of trees in the grove grow to enormoussize. INIany of the sugar and yellow pines are from four toten feet in diameter and nearly or quite two hundred feethigh. The formers cones are the largest produced by anyconifer. Occasionally they reach a length of almost twofeet. About a hundred miles south is the Gen. Grant NationalPark of Big Trees, and fifty miles farther on is the largeSequoia National Park. In the latter is the General ShermanTree, reputed to be the oldest living thing on the face of theearth. It is one hundred and three feet in circumferenceand two hundred and eighty feet high. In volume of wood itseems to be the largest known tree. The sequoia is Naturesforest masterpiece. INIore than a million of these trees
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