The Vernal Falls, Yosemite National Park[182]

From a photograph by Charles S. Olcott

The Happy Isles, Yosemite National Park[190]

This is the main stream of the Merced River after passing over the Nevada and Vernal Falls and receiving the Illilouette tributary.

The Three Brothers, Yosemite National Park[208]

The highest rock, called Eagle Point, is 7900 feet above the sea, and 3900 feet above the floor of the valley.

Map of the Yosemite National Park[264]

From the United States Geological Survey

FROM SKETCHES MADE BY THE AUTHOR IN 1869

Horseshoe Bend, Merced River[14]
On Second Bench. Edge of the Main Forest Belt, above Coulterville, near Greeley’s Mill[14]
Camp, North Fork of the Merced[38]
Mountain Live Oak (Quercus chrysolepis), Eight Feet in Diameter[38]
Sugar Pine[50]
Douglas Squirrel observing Brother Man[68]
Divide between the Tuolumne and the Merced, below Hazel Green[86]
Track of Singing Dancing Grasshopper in the Air over North Dome[140]
Abies Magnifica (Mount Clark, Top of South Dome, Mount Starr King)[142]
Illustrating Growth of New Pine from Branch below the Break of Axis of Snow-crushed Tree[144]
Approach of Dome Creek to Yosemite[150]
Junipers in Tenaya Cañon[164]
View of Tenaya Lake showing Cathedral Peak[196]
One of the Tributary Fountains of the Tuolumne Cañon Waters, on the North Side Of the Hoffman Range[196]
Glacier Meadow, on the Headwaters of the Tuolumne, 9500 Feet above the Sea[204]
Mono Lake and Volcanic Cones, looking South[228]
Highest Mono Volcanic Cones (Near View)[228]
One of the Highest Mount Ritter Fountains[240]
Glacier Meadow strewn with Moraine Boulders, 10,000 feet above the Sea (near Mount Dana)[248]
Front of Cathedral Peak[248]
View of Upper Tuolumne Valley[252]