THE YOSEMITE NATIONAL PARK 93 



is made over the passage in the Bible telling of the 

 standing still of the sun for Joshua. Here you 

 may learn that the miracle occurs for every de- 

 vout mountaineer, for everybody doing anything 

 worth doing, seeing anything worth seeing. One 

 day is as a thousand years, a thousand years as 

 one day, and while yet in the flesh you enjoy 

 immortality. 



From the monument you will find an easy way 

 down through the woods and along the Big 

 Tuolumne Meadows to Mount Dana, the summit 

 of which commands a grand telling view of the 

 alpine region. The scenery all the way is in- 

 spiring, and you saunter on without knowing 

 that you are climbing. The spacious sunny 

 meadows, through the midst of which the bright 

 river glides, extend with but little interruption 

 ten miles to the eastward, dark woods rising 

 on either side to the limit of tree growth, and 

 above the woods a picturesque line of gray peaks 

 and spires dotted with snow banks ; while, on the 

 axis of the Sierra, Mount Dana and his noble 

 compeers repose in massive sublimity, their vast 

 size and simple flowing contours contrasting in 

 the most striking manner with the clustering 

 spires and thin-pinnacled crests crisply outlined 

 on the horizon to the north and south of them. 



Tracing the silky lawns, gradually ascending, 

 gazing at the sublime scenery more and more 

 openly unfolded, noting the avalanche gaps in 



