We are looking northeast over the treetops and the Merced River, […]. The Three Brothers seem to rise sheer up from within a few feet of the river's northern bank, but they are at least a mile off from that particular point of the river, so does the immense mass and bulk of the cliffs of the valley shrink apparent distances and deceive the eye, even when aided, as nothing else can aid it, by the atmosphere-preserving stereograph. That is a group unique in this land of wonders, and in the world. Three granite peaks soldered onto one another, Three Brothers, each towering slightly above the other until the highest, Eagle Peak, climbs into the vault of heaven, three thousand eight hundred and thirty feet above the valley. […]
From: Charles Quincy Turner, Yosemite Valley Through the Stereoscope, Underwood & Underwood, New York, 1902, p. 28-29.
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