This is our last turn on the pivot at Glacier Point […], and we are facing exactly the opposite direction to that with which we began (Stereograph No. 14). This time we are looking southeast, directly along the valley of the Merced River, after it leaves the Yosemite Valley proper and sets up, as it were, on its own account. […] One can rest content fortunately, that though it is open to the whole world to settle thereon, centuries will come and pass away, and many men may settle within the metes and bounds between us and the outer horizon, yet their presence will count for no more in these vast wilds than if they were gnats. […]
From: Charles Quincy Turner, Yosemite Valley Through the Stereoscope, Underwood & Underwood, New York, 1902, pp. 57-59.
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