Identifier: threewonderlands00murp (find matches)
Title: Three wonderlands of the American West; being the notes of a traveler, concerning the Yellowstone park, the Yosemite national park, and the Grand Canyon of the Colorado River, with a chapter on other wonders of the great American West
Year: 1912 (1910s)
Authors: Murphy, Thos. D. (Thomas Dowler), 1866-1928
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Publisher: Boston, L. C. Page & company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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ojects itself so airily from theextreme edge of this stupendous cliff. Thegreat stone, weighing many tons, apparentlyclings to its perilous perch by the frailest holdpossible, seeming as if with your weight added itmust inevitably plunge to the floor of the valleymore than three thousand feet beneath—sosheer that a pebble which one may drop fromthe stone touches nothing in its descent of morethan half a mile. One sees many photographsof venturesome people standing on the edge ofthe rock, but they are doubtless the exceptions,for the average visitor feels little inclination togo out upon it—nor is it at all necessary to doso, since the magnificent scene may be viewedsafely from behind the iron railings that guardthe verge of the cliff. And it is a scene magnificent beyond allpower of pen or pencil to portray. Indeed,there must come to every beholder something ofthe feeling of the pilgrim of the Earthly Para-dise, when Down into the vale he gazed,And held his breath, as if amazed 74
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THE YOSEMITE By all its wondrous loveliness.For as the sun its depths did bless,It lighted up from side to side,A close-shut valley, nothing wide.But ever full of all things fair.Not a few experienced travelers have pro-nounced the Glacier Point view the grandestsight on earth. It is one that every visitorshould see, for from this point his eye mayrange over all of the more striking glories ofYosemite. Fortunately, the day is perfect, clearas crystal to the very verge of the horizon.Well might one yield himself up to silent amaze-ment as the scene slowly possesses him, for hewill be totally unable to grasp its full grandeurin a moment or even in an hour. There is avague impression of vastness and beauty, butit is some time ere the mind is able to dwell on thedetails and to analyze the marvelous landscapeinto its component parts. Nearly a mile below lies the narrow greenvale, its giant pines seemingly shrubbery, itsstreams the merest threads of silver, the hotela childs toy house. Mirr

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