LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS. 



PLATE PAGE 



I. The Le Conte Memorial Lodge, Yosemite Valley i 



II. The Palisades, from Woodworth Mountain 2 



III. The Palisades, from the Peak South of Lake Marion 5 



IV. (i) Dumb-bell Lake ; (2) Head of the Amphitheater, between the Palisades 11 

 V. (i) Summit of the North Palisade, from Mt. Sill ; (2) View out from Chim- 

 ney near Summit of North Palisade 15 



Map of the Palisades and Vicinity 18 



VI. Lyell Glacier 20 



VII. McClure Glacier 23 



VIII. (i) A Fair Stand of Second-Growth Sugar and Yellow Pine of about 



Twenty-five Years' Growth ; (2) A Once Promising Stand of 

 Second-Growth Timber 35 



IX. (i) General Character of Hillside Farming Land; (2) "Thorns also and 



thistles shall it bring forth " 39 



X. Mt. Williamson 44 



XI. The Approach to the Summft of Mt. Williamson 47 



XII. Mt. Whitney, from the Summit of Mt. Williamson 48 



XIII. Mt. Whitney 50 



XIV. Farewell Gap 54 



XV. (i) Kern Lake ; (2) Camp Olney 58 



XVI. Tower Rock, Kern River Cahon 60 



XVII. (i) Another View of the Le Conte Lodge ; (2) Interior View of the 



Le Conte Lodge 66 



XVIII. The Eastern Cliffs of Mt. Whitney 87 



XIX. The Water-Ouzel: (i) " Her lubberly husband was still nursing his sus- 

 picions," etc. ; (2) " With a May-fiy in his bill," etc 105 



XX. The Water-Ouzel: (i) "He likes to stand on a moss cushion," etc.; 



(2) Where the Water-Ouzel is at Home 106 



XXI. The San Francisco Peaks from the West 108 



XXII. Over Harrison's Pass: (i) "The very pictures of dejection"; 



(2) "'Johnny' suddenly fell into a deep snow-hole" 120 



XXIII. General View of the Cucamonga Mountains 122 



XXIV. (i) Head of Cataract Gulch; (2) Among the Redwoods of Sequoia 



Canon 136 



XXV. Mt. Humphreys from the East 153 



XXVI. (i) Mt. Humphreys from the Southwest; (2) Lake Frances 158 



XXVII. Looking Down a Gorge on Mt. Humphreys 168 



XXVIII. (i) Descent of Mt. Lyell, 1904; (2) On the Snow-Tongue of Mt. Ritter, 1904 184 

 XXIX. Fairview Dome 214 



XXX. (i) Half-Dome at East End of Yosemite Valley ; (2) Part of Southeast 



Wall of Little Yosemite Valley 216 



