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Title: The top of the continent; the story of a cheerful journey through our national parks
Year: 1917 (1910s)
Authors: Yard, Robert Sterling, 1861-1945
Subjects: National parks and reserves
Publisher: New York, Chicago (etc.) C. Scribner's sons
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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fersonscould not afford the time to explore the greater park,but they determined to make one trip above the val-leys rim, to sample it, as Jack phrased it. **I want to see the Tuolumne water-wheels, saidUncle Tom. **I have heard it predicted that fiftyyears from now the Canyon of the Tuolumne will beacknowledged to possess the most celebrated water-spectacle in the world. Now that camps and an auto-mobile road exist above the valleys rim, it is possiblefor every one to visit the Tuolumne. It is a hard trip,but not too hard, they tell me, for all of us to see thecanyon and the water-wheels. So they broke camp early one morning and travelledon horseback up the long, rocky Tenaya Canyon. AtTenaya Lake they rested and spent the night in apublic camp. The next day they fished the TuolumneRiver, and spent that night in another camp at Tuo-lumne Meadows. The third day they visited thecanyon. Of all the noble sights in the Yosemite National Park,Margaret and Jack afterward declared that their
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186 THE TOP OF THE CONTINENT close-by view of the water-wheels was the most excit-ing. The canyon tilts sharply till it drops to the levelof the Hetch Hetchy Valley, and down these slopesthe Tuolumne River finds no resting-place. For sev-eral miles it is a continuous succession of cascades,waterfalls, and swift rushes over long granite slopes atsharp angles. Some day a greater poem will be writtenabout Tuolumne water than that by which RobertSouthey made the falls at Ladore celebrated through-out the world; for the Tuolumne water is many timesas stirring a spectacle as the water that comes downat Ladore; in fact, it is itself one of natures mostwonderful poems. Again and again in these sharp slopes between water-falls the water strikes cross ledges of rock and rises highin the air, describing long, sweeping arcs before it againjoins the rushing river below. Some of these half-circles of white frothing water rise fifty feet beforethey begin to curve downward. To sit on the slopinggrani

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