Photo by H. C. Best 
yosemite: falls, in the yosemite valley : yosemite national park 
"This is a stream 35 feet wide, and in the spring and early summer, when the snow is 
melting upon the high Sierra, its roar can be heard all over the valley and the shock of the 
descent rattles the windows a mile away. This fall is conceded by all critics to be one of the 
most wonderful and beautiful cascades in the world. Its first fall is 1,430 feet sheer drop; 
then comes a series of cascades, partly hidden, in which the fall is 675 feet, and finally a 
vertical drop of 320 feet" (page 556). 
