This is our first view of North Dome, whose seven thousand five hundred and twenty-five feet above sea level tower over the Royal Arches, three miles and a half directly in front of us. The Arches and the North Dome are one and the same mountain, but show the two methods of lamination of the granites of this district. Look carefully at that part of the strata below the shelf coming down from the left-hand top of the dome, on which trees are growing plentifully, and especially at that portion of the rock's face below a clump of thick wood. You will notice that the layers of granite are tilted into distinct arches, hollow under their crowns, as if each end of the layer had been subject to immense pressure at the ends and been squeezed upward in the centre, as, in fact, they have been. […]
From: Charles Quincy Turner, Yosemite Valley Through the Stereoscope, Underwood & Underwood, New York, 1902, pp. 31-32.
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