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Title: The falls of Niagara
Year: 1883 (1880s)
Authors: Holley, George Washington, 1810-1897. (from old catalog)
Subjects: Waterfalls
Publisher: New-York, A. C. Armstrong & son
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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eapd the waters farAbove its loftiest mountains?—a light waveThat breaks and whispers of its Makers might. PART IV. OTIIKR FAMOUS CATARACTSOF THE WORLD. chaiTI:r XIX. Yoscmitc — Vcriwl — Nevada — Yellowstone — .Shoshone —St. Maurice—Montmorency. 1^i)\< the piuposc of comparison it may be interestingto note other cataracts in the United States, and inother parts of the world, and also some of the remarkablerapids, which may be successors to what were once per-pciulicuhir falls. For descriptions of those in foreigncountries we are chiefly indebted to the geographicalgazetteers and the journals of Humboldt, Livingstone,Bohle, and Stanley; for informaticm regarding the cata-racts of Norway we are indebted to Murrays Norway,Denmark and Sweden. In the United States, after Niagara, the first to claimour attention are the I\ills of the Yosemite, so graphicallyand scientifically made known to us in the second vol-ume of Professor J. D. Whitneys Geological Report forCalifornia.
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Opposite page 164. Yosemite I<alls. OTHER FAMOUS CATARACTS. 165 Before describing them it is necessary to note thephysical features of the region in which they are placed.The valley of the Yosemite forms a portion of the bedof the Merced River, which flows through it and passesfrom it by a wild, deep caiion into the San Joaquin. Itis about eight miles long and from half a mile to a milewide, with a sharp bend to the west, about two milesfrom its upper end. To this place the Merced and twotributaries, called the North and South Forks, havecome through the most rugged canons, falling nearlytwo thousand feet in the space of two miles. Near the southerly end of the valley is the remark-able rock El Capitan, an almost vertical cliff 3,600 feethigh, and one of the grandest objects in the valley.Just above this is the imposing pile called the CathedralRocks, and behind these, connected with them, twoslender and beautiful granite columns called the Cathe-dral Spires. Two miles above, on th

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