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Title: Travels in Europe and America
Year: 1903 (1900s)
Authors: Bolton, Charles E(dward), 1841-1901. (from old catalog)
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Publisher: New York, T. Y. Crowell & co
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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arms. There are stretches of open meadow and for-ests of handsome oaks, pines, and other trees—no Se-quoias. The Manzanita, however, with its oddlycontorted red stems and olive-green leaves and thebuckeye with its broad leaves and long plumes ofsnow blossoms follow you into the valley. Here is the Rock El Capitan, or Captain, theMerced a trout river flowing peacefully at its base.How trim and stately the pines on the bank ! Highover all this is one vast block of granite 3,300 feetabove the stream. The south and the west facesare nearly abrupt angles almost vertical. Few signsof vegetation are on this immense cliff. Part wayup, in an indentation, grows a lone pine tree onehundred and twenty-five feet high. Try to climbeven the debris at the foot and you easily are ledto believe that El Capitan is twent3^-five times ashigh as the pine. The face is equal to a one hun-dred and sixty acre farm. The Three Brothers are on the same side of thevalley, and above, and adjoining El Capitan, are
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TRA VELS. 367 more enormous peaks springing from a common baseand rising granite above granite, the slender pinestheir only rivals. These three cliffs seem to leanover the valley. Eagle Peak is 3830 feet abovethe Merced, and the views of Yosemite, and thevast scope of the high Sierra Mountains are inde-scribably grand. Opposite are the CathedralSpires, Sentinel Rock, and Dome. Across the valley the Bridal Veil Falls charmsevery beholder. The stream is fed by OstranderLake in the mountains a dozen miles south, andrarely exceeds fifty feet in width at the top, but hasan unimpeded fall of 600 feet, (or 900 feet includingthe cascade below). Many consider the Bridal Veilthe most beautiful of all the pictures in the YosemiteGallery. Often breezes catch the clear stream belowthe brink and sway it, first one side, then the other,with long sweeping motions of ideal grace. Thewater in its descent divides into myriads of minia-ture comets, or sheets of comminuted spray, andunder the sun sparkles

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