We are at the point where the creek gathers into a small lake […]. I have before called your attention to the remarkable limpidity of the waters of the Sierras. Here is an example of it, peerless in its reflective power, amid all the mirror lakes of the world, and surrounded by scenery such as no other mirror lake can begin to compare with. Its nearest competitor is the north fork of the Virgin River, in Utah, which has achieved worldwide fame in that it reflects the Towers which rise two thousand feet above it. But this Mirror Lake of the Tenaiya Valley holds on its placid surface, at one time, the images of four mountains. […]
From: Charles Quincy Turner, Yosemite Valley Through the Stereoscope, Underwood & Underwood, New York, 1902, p. 67.
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