This opens up a view straight up the valley of the Tenaiya. Waterfalls in this valley are "conspicuous by their absence." The Merced Valley has two falls, the Illiouette has one, none of which we have yet seen, while every highland creek around pours its affluent over falls. The Tenaiya is a mountain tarn coming down from the height of land away to the east two thousand feet by a series of cascades, but even these cease to be more than ordinary before it reaches the metes and bounds of the park. This is not a day when Cloud's Rest earns his title, for the air is absolutely cloudless, and nothing rests on its rugged tops but nature's gilding, and the rose tints of approaching sunset. […]
From: Charles Quincy Turner, Yosemite Valley Through the Stereoscope, Underwood & Underwood, New York, 1902, pp. 55-57.
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