Twenty Hiill Hollow 
pronounced very good; and because of the con- 
centrated form of its Yosemite, caused by cer- 
tain conditions of baking, yeasting, and glacier- 
frosting of this portion of the great Sierra loaf. 
In like manner, we readily perceive that the 
great central plain is one batch of bread— 
one golden cake — and we are loath to leave 
these magnificent loaves for crumbs, however 
good. 
After our smoky sky has been washed in the 
rains of winter, the whole complex row of 
Sierras appears from the plain as a simple 
wall, slightly beveled, and colored in horizontal 
bands laid one above another, as if entirely 
composed of partially straightened rainbows. 
So, also, the plain seen from the mountains has 
the same simplicity of smooth surface, colored 
purple and yellow, like a patchwork of irised 
clouds. But when we descend to this smooth- 
furred sheet, we discover complexity in its phys- 
ical conditions equal to that of the mountains, 
though less strongly marked. In particular, 
that portion of the plain lying between the 
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