At last we stand on the summit of Eagle Peak, one of the Three Brothers, which, […] John Muir saw " tremble like a jelly." It is hard to realize, standing on its apparently adamantine rocky top, seven thousand seven hundred and fifty feet above the sea, that there has within a present lifetime been a quiver in its rigid frame. […]. Away, away down prone at our feet, […] lies a portion of the main valley, winding on our left round the spreading base of Half Dome, which stretches entirely across the middle distance. Far away, too, over Half Dome's western extremity we catch sight of a thin silver band which we recognize at once as the Nevada Falls, the upper of the two falls […] which bring in the Merced River out of the mountains at that extreme end of the main valley. […]
From: Charles Quincy Turner, Yosemite Valley Through the Stereoscope, Underwood & Underwood, New York, 1902, pp. 41-42.
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