... culminating point. It is in this formation that occur the two grandest features of the Southern Sierra—the Yosemite Valley and King’s River Caiion. The Yosemite to a vast split of the granite in the axis of the range, and possibly was formed by an uplifting that ...

... arctic mantle. The mountains around the once luxuriant lake region were heaped with snow. Glaciers slid through the valleys, carving Yosemites, and strewing the plains with continental debris. Harper's Magazine for April. ...

... River Canon, which until recently bad never been intelligently explored aud described, is called by John Muir greater than Yosemite.” Profound canons, tow ering granite spires, and stupendous perpendicular walla are its principal characteristic features ...