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THE GUIDE TO NATURE. 



will take you to the top. From here the 

 whole valley spreads out at your feet, 

 wonderful and awe inspiring". Across 



YOSEMITE PALLS. 



Entire height 2,600 feet. 

 Here is found the mystic charm of moving- 

 waters. 



niav en 



Vernal and Nevada Falls, you 

 ter the Little Yosemite. 



Directly opposite your camp stands 

 Glacier Point, a summit of bare, upright 

 faces of rock rising three thousand two 

 hundred and fifty-four feet above you. 

 A zigzag trail of four and a half miles 



NEVADA FALLS. 

 "The whole of the Merced River here 

 plunges down six hundred and five feet 

 with reverberating and mighty billows of 

 mist and arching rainbows." 



