THE YOSEMITE VALLEY
By DWIGHT L. ELMENDORF
Lecturer and Traveler
MENTOR COLOR PLATES
- CATHEDRAL SPIRES
- YOSEMITE FALLS
- EL CAPITAN
- HALF DOME
- THREE BROTHERS
- VIEW FROM GLACIER POINT TRAIL
Entered as second-class matter March 10, 1913, at the postoffice at New York, N. Y., under the act of March 3, 1879. Copyright, 1916, by The Mentor Association, Inc.
Rest here for a time by the side of the Merced River while I tell you something of this peaceful, lovely valley. Look over to that further cliff and watch the silver stream of the Yosemite descend in three gleaming white steps from the summit of rock 2,600 feet above us to the meadow level where we stand. In its first flight of 1,430 feet it falls a third of that distance in a snowy column, then turns to wreathing smoke, through which many glistening darts shoot down to the rocky basin below. Here the misty elements are resolved again into water, and the stream tumbles frothing through rocks to its second flight, then on to the lower fall of 320 feet, when it dashes on a bed of boulders and hurries to join the Merced River.
