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head of the valley and we looked with 

 awe at the wonderful works of nature. 



To our left stood El Capitan, its base 

 resting two thousand feet below us, while 

 its top was lifted a thousand feet still 

 higher than we were. The halftone pic- 

 tures which we present, through the 



drought. Not a drop of water moistened 

 the rocks, although the beautiful Merced 

 River winding at the button; of the valley 

 was well filled. 



A few hours spent in this marvelous 

 valley were entirely too short, no one 

 should think of coming here for a stay 



I'ermlssiuu uf S(jutliern Patific Kail way. 



TIIK HALF DOME. 



courtesy of the Southern Pacific Railway, 

 give a better impression of the various 

 views throughout this wonderful valley 

 than any pen can do. 



Probably tens of thousands of people 

 have seen the Yosemite Falls as the water 

 pours over the precipice, falling two 

 thousand feet, where one tias seen it as I 

 did, during the season of excessive 



of less than a week — and this I hope at 

 some future time to do. 



Seven hundred feet above the base of 

 the rock El Capitan, in Yosemite X'alley, 

 vet half a mile below its summit is a shelf 

 where a piece of the granite, long ago, 

 was thrown down. I'jxm this <;helf a 

 bird carried the seed of a pine, depositing 

 it anion"- the accumulation of dust. The 



