Here we have the second projecting rock close on our right. It was on our left when we were looking straight up to this place (Stereograph No. 12). As a few minutes ago it seemed but a step across to the Yosemite Falls, so here it looks as if one could with a good jump, land plump on the bald pate of the Half Dome, though that is more than two miles and a half off, as the crow flies, and, moreover, it is really seventeen hundred feet higher than we are, although, at first, under the operation of the laws of perspective it looks to be below us. It grows upon us as we look at it. It is a mighty dome of granite which will never be trodden except by a few daring climbers. […]
From: Charles Quincy Turner, Yosemite Valley Through the Stereoscope, Underwood & Underwood, New York, 1902, pp. 52-53.
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