In the Sierra 



foot sunflowers, lilies, brier rose, iris, Ionic- 

 era, clematis. 



One of the smallest of the cascades, which 

 I name the Bower Cascade, is in the lower 

 region of the pass, where the vegetation is 

 snowy and luxuriant. Wild rose and dog- 

 wood form dense masses overarching the 

 stream, and out of this bower the creek, 

 grown strong with many indashing tribu- 

 taries, leaps forth into the light, and de- 

 scends in a fluted curve thick-sown with crisp 

 flashing spray. At the foot of the canon 

 there is a lake formed in part at least by the 

 damming of the stream by a terminal mo- 

 raine. The three other lakes in the canon 

 are in basins eroded from the solid rock, 

 where the pressure of the glacier was great- 

 est, and the most resisting portions of the 

 >asin rims are beautifully, tellingly polished. 

 Below Moraine Lake at the foot of the 

 canon there are several old lake-basins lying 

 between the large lateral moraines which 

 extend out into the desert. These basins are 



