Glimpses of our national parks . er falls which pourover the rim into the Yosemite Falls, for in-stance, drops 1,430 feet in onesheer fall, a height equal tonine Niagara Falls piled oneon top of the other. TheLower Yosemite Fall, imme-diately below, has a drop of320 feet, or two Niagaras more. Vernal Falls has the same height,while Illilouette Falls is 50 feet higher. The Nevada Falls drops 591feet sheer; the celebrated Bridal Veil Fall 620 feet, while the EibbonFalls, highest of all, drops 1,612 feet sheer, a straight fall ten timesas great as Niagara. Nowhere else in the world may
Glimpses of our national parks . er falls which pourover the rim into the Yosemite Falls, for in-stance, drops 1,430 feet in onesheer fall, a height equal tonine Niagara Falls piled oneon top of the other. TheLower Yosemite Fall, imme-diately below, has a drop of320 feet, or two Niagaras more. Vernal Falls has the same height,while Illilouette Falls is 50 feet higher. The Nevada Falls drops 591feet sheer; the celebrated Bridal Veil Fall 620 feet, while the EibbonFalls, highest of all, drops 1,612 feet sheer, a straight fall ten timesas great as Niagara. Nowhere else in the world may be had a waterspectacle such as this. Similarly the sheer summits. Cathedral Rocks rise 2,500 feet per-pendicular from the valley; El Capitan, 3,604 feet; Sentinel Dome,4,157 feet; Half Dome, 4,892 feet; Clouds Rest, 5,964 these monsters the Merced sings its winding falls are at their best in May and June while the winter snowsare melting. They are still fine in July, but after that decreaserapidly in Photograph by Lindley Eddy Common Black ok Brown Beak OUR NATIONAL PARKS. 19 The Yosemite Valley, extraordinary though it is from both thescenic and the scientific points of view, is an exceedingly small partof the Yosemite National Park; but until the summer of 1915, whenthe Department of the Interior acquired possession of the old TiogaRoad, the magnificent country north of the valley was known onlyto a few enthusiastic mountaineers who went in yearly with campoutfits. The old Tioga Road was built in 1881 to a mine soon afterabandoned. Its recent repair by the Government has opened to allone of the finest scenic sections in America, a country dotted withsplendid snowy summits, grown with glorious forests, and wateredwith rushing trout streams. THE WATER WHEELS And thus is added to the amazing water spectacle for which thevalley is famous still another kind of Yosemite waterfall destinedto world-wide celebrity. The Tuolumne River, descending sharplyto
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