We are on the very verge of the eastern cliffs of the Sentinel Dome, at an altitude of some seven thousand feet, looking across the valley straight over to the North Dome, seven thousand five hundred and twenty-five feet high. We have not seen that summit before from so favorable a point of view. […] It is an awesome scene, which from its isolation is the more impressive in this land of immense distances. One seems perched here on so frail a little bracket, that, were it not for the mighty tree, whose weight it has borne these two hundred years, one would expect that a man's weight alone must break it off, and he and it go crashing down into the bottomless chasm, whose hungry maw seems literally yawning for a victim. […]
From: Charles Quincy Turner, Yosemite Valley Through the Stereoscope, Underwood & Underwood, New York, 1902, pp. 60-61.
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