To look at this place properly, we must, […] throw our heads back until we are looking almost perpendicularly upward. Then you will see that as the water trickles over the edge of the rock it turns inward by molecular attraction, and clings to the bare face of the granite, […]. But we came here to look up to Glacier Point. Well, glancing straight up between the end of the leafy tree branch above us on the left, and the water-covered rock on our right, notice those two rocks, like the two horns or ears of some giant animal, projecting out from the cliff far away. That is Glacier Point, full three thousand feet above us. […]
From: Charles Quincy Turner, Yosemite Valley Through the Stereoscope, Underwood & Underwood, New York, 1902, pp. 46-47.
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