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 . showing clearly that they must havebeen produced by the contraction of the material while cooling or solidifying,and also giving very strongly the impression that, in many places, we seesomething of the original shape of the surface, as it was when the gi-aniticmass assumed its present position. In the canons between these domes, wesometimes have large surfaces exposed by denudation, and, as a result of theoriginal concentric structure of the rocks o
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 . showing clearly that they must havebeen produced by the contraction of the material while cooling or solidifying,and also giving very strongly the impression that, in many places, we seesomething of the original shape of the surface, as it was when the gi-aniticmass assumed its present position. In the canons between these domes, wesometimes have large surfaces exposed by denudation, and, as a result of theoriginal concentric structure of the rocks on each side, we see the great 116 THE YOSEMITE GUIDE-BOOK. plates of granite overlai)piiig each other, and where considerable weatheringand denndation has taken place, we have picturesque and curious forms asthe residt; pyramids and ])innacles ai-e left standing on the prominent points,and their bedded str\icture adds to the pccidiar impression which they giveof their being works of art rather than of nature. Fig. 14 will serve toillustrate the kind of scenery which is common in the region of this concen-trically bedded gi-anitc. Fijr. GRANITE ROCKS NEAR CAMP 169. The route follow^ed by the party, in their attempt to reach the summit,led around the noith side of the Domes, over the huge jiiles of angidarfragments, and was on this account tedious and difficult. Camp 167 wasmade at a point two miles northeast of the Dome, and at an altitude of8,890 feet above the sea. Camp 108 was foiu- or five miles southeast of theDome, at a small meadow on the divide, and at an elevation of 9,569 was necessarily very slow, owing to the heavy load of provisionsand instruments with which the small train of animals was packed, and theextreme roughness of the region travelled over. Beyond the Domes the THE HIGH SIERRA. 117 divide contracts to a mere ridge; the slope to the soutli, although steep,is comparatively smooth, and spreads out, towards its base, into rollingwooded spur
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