LAND of ENCHANTMENT

HO does not know of the Yosemite Valley? And yet, how few have heard of the Yosemite National Park! How few know that this world-famous, incomparable Valley is merely a crack seven miles long in a scenic masterpiece of eleven hundred square miles!

John Muir loved the Valley and crystallized its fame in phrase.

But still more he loved the National Park, which he describes as including "innumerable lakes and waterfalls and smooth silky lawns; the noblest forests, the loftiest granite domes, the deepest ice-sculptured canyons, the brightest crystalline pavements, and snowy mountains soaring into the sky twelve and thirteen thousand feet, arrayed in open ranks and spiry-pinnacled groups partially separated by tremendous canyons and ampitheaters; gardens on their sunny brows, avalanches thundering down their long white slopes, cataracts roaring gray and foaming in the crooked rugged gorges, and glaciers in their shadowy recesses working in silence, slowly completing their sculptures; newborn lakes at their feet, blue and green, free or encumbered with drifting iceberg like miniature Arctic Oceans, shining, sparkling, calm as stars."

THE HIGHEST WATERFALL IN THE WORLD—THE YOSEMITE FALLS The Upper Fall measures 1,430 feet, as high as nine Niagras. The Lower Fall measures 320 feet. The total drop from crest to river, including intermediate cascades, is a half a mile. Photograph by A. C. Pillsbury

THE YOSEMITE VALLEY FROM INSPIRATION POINT, SHOWING BRIDALVEIL FALLS Photograph by H. T. Cowling

THE YOSEMITE VALLEY FROM GLACIER POINT The Upper and Lower Yosemite Falls are here shown in partial profile. Photograph by J. T. Boyson

HALF DOME FROM NEAR WASHINGTON COLUMN Its summit is 4,892 feet above the floor of the Valley Photograph by J. T. Boyson

EARLY MORNING BESIDE MIRROR LAKE This lake is famous for its reflections of the cliffs. Mount Watkins in the background

EL CAPITAN AT SUNSET This gigantic rock, whose hard granite resisted the glacier, rises 3,604 feet from the Valley floor Copyright 1910, by J. T. Boyson