The Yosemite Guide-book: A Description of the Yosemite Valley and the Adjacent Region of the Sierra Nevada, and of the Big Trees of CaliforniaUniversity Press, Welch, Bigelow, 1870 - 155 páginas |
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The Yosemite Guide-book: A Description of the Yosemite Valley and the ... Geological Survey of California Visualização completa - 1870 |
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altitude ascended base beautiful belt Big Oak Flat Big Trees branches Bridal Veil Calaveras California called Camp cañon Capitan Cathedral Peak Cathedral Rock Clark's cliffs climbing Coast Ranges Coulterville Crane Flat Creek crest débris descend distance east eastern edge El Capitan elevation especially explorations farther feet high forests Geological Survey glaciers grand grandeur grove Half Dome head height High Sierra highest immense Indian Kaweah Kaweah Rivers Kern King's River Lake Mariposa meadows Merced River miles Mono moraines Mount Brewer Mount Dana Mount Lyell Mount Shasta Mount Tyndall mountains nearly Nevada Fall Obelisk party pass peculiar pine Pinus plateau portion precipitous reach redwood region ridge rise San Francisco San Joaquin scenery sea-level seen Sentinel Dome Sequoia Sierra Nevada slope snow South Fork steep stream summit Tenaya trail traveller Tuolumne vegetation Vernal Fall vertical volcanic walls waterfalls Westfall's whole Yosemite Fall Yosemite Valley
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Página 60 - Fall rises in a bold peak to the height of 3030 feet above the Valley ; it can be reached up Indian Canon, a little farther east, and from this point a magnificent view of the whole region can be obtained. The ascent to the summit of the fall and the return to the Valley can be made in one day...
Página 80 - We conceive that, during the process of upheaval of the Sierra, or, possibly, at some time after that had taken place, there was at the Yosemite a subsidence of a limited area, marked by lines of " fault " or fissures crossing each other somewhat nearly at right angles. In other and more simple language, the bottom of the Valley sank down to an unknown depth, owing to its support being withdrawn from underneath, during...
Página 60 - As the various portions of the fall are nearly in one vertical plane, the effect of the whole is nearly as grand, and perhaps even more picturesque, than it would be if the descent were made in one leap from the top of the cliff to the level of the valley. Nor is the grandeur or beauty of the fall perceptibly diminished by even a very considerable diminution of the quantity of water from its highest stage.
Página 50 - It is doubtful if anywhere in the world there is presented so squarely cut, SO lofty, and so imposing a face of rock. On the other side of the Valley we have the Bridal Veil Fall, unquestionably one of the most beautiful objects in the Yosemite. It is formed by the creek of the same name, which rises a few miles east of Empire Camp, runs through the meadows at...
Página 64 - Rest,' the somewhat fanciful designation of a long, bare, steep, and extremely elevated granite ridge, which connects the valley with the High Sierra. This point is one of the few which have not been measured ; it is perhaps 1,000 feet higher than the Half Dome, or nearly 10,000 ft.
Página 64 - In doing this, the river descends, in two miles, over 2000 feet, making, besides innumerable cascades, two grand falls, which are among the greater attractions of the Yosemite, not only on account of their height and the large body of water in the river during most of the season, but also on account of the stupendous scenery in the midst of which they are placed.
Página 1 - Office, shall constitute the evidence of the locus, extent, and limits of the said cleft or gorge; the premises to be managed by the governor of the State with eight other commissioners, to be appointed by the executive of California, and who shall receive no compensation for their services.
Página 80 - Yosemite a subsidence of a limited area, marked by lines of ' fault ' or fissures crossing each other somewhat nearly at right angles. In other and more simple language, the bottom of the valley sank down to an unknown depth, owing to its support being withdrawn from underneath, during some of those convulsive movements which must have attended the upheaval of so extensive and elevated a chain, no matter how slow we may imagine the process to have been.