As our first standpoint in Yosemite, " Inspiration Point " is a happy choice, for suddenly, from among the very branches of the overhanging pines on the very edge of the rugged cliffs, there bursts, without warning, in splendor bright the whole central valley from its gateway to farthest Cloud's Rest, twelve miles as the crow flies, with all the grandeur and beauty of nature intervening in this region of the majesties. Standing here drawing in the inspirations which the dullest soul must feel in such a presence, we are three thousand feet above the tops of those trees below, which completely hide the waters of the Merced River, […]
From: Charles Quincy Turner, Yosemite Valley Through the Stereoscope, Underwood & Underwood, New York, 1902, pp. 18-19.
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