We are exactly opposite the Cap of Liberty, […] which springs from the foot of the falls straight away skyward eighteen hundred feet. So steep is this bare rock that not even a seedling has found a spot to plant itself, and there are few places where nature will not make a desperate attempt to cover the barren rocks; […] Only one ledge on the side makes tree growth possible, and that is the terrace running upward at a, slight angle, like a band, from west to east, about a third of the way up, as if the huge bulk of the cap had, at some time, been taken by the top and twisted, […] as one would turn the topmost of a pack of cards, and leave the bottom of the pack extending a trifle beyond those above. […]
From: Charles Quincy Turner, Yosemite Valley Through the Stereoscope, Underwood & Underwood, New York, 1902, pp. 65-65.
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