Studies in the Sierra 



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main in a thousand water-worn monuments upon its walls. Nor, 

 since Yosemite glaciers have been burned off by the sun, is the 

 proof less conclusive that in their greater extension they exca- 

 vated Yosemite, for, both in shape and sculpture, every Yo- 

 semite rock is a glacial monument. 



When we walk the pathways of Yosemite glaciers and 

 contemplate their separate works — the mountains they have 

 shaped, the cafions they have furrowed, the rocks they have 

 worn, and broken, and scattered in moraines — on reaching Yo- 

 semite, instead of being overwhelmed as at first with its uncom- 

 pared magnitude, we ask, Is this all? wondering that so mighty 

 a concentration of energy did not find yet grander expression. 



