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probably rightly so, as the most outstanding and wonderful 

 features of the park upper Yosemite Falls, 9 times the height 

 of Niagara, descending from the lip of a hanging valley down 

 a sheer straight cliff 1 ,43 feet, so far as now known the highest 

 free-leaping waterfall in existence; then read again the first 

 words of the chapter, "Incomparable Yosemite," and if this, as 

 the final conclusion, does not harmonize with the reader's 

 thought then the fault is in what has been said, or in what has 

 not been said, and not in what Nature has done. 



