[…] Over three miles away, we get a view of the back of the rocks over the western front of which we saw the leap of the Bridal Veil Falls (Stereograph No. 1). How different is the scene now brought into view! That was water in action; here is water in repose! And such repose and such transparent water is surely not to be found elsewhere. There is much available testimony of hunters and others that the water of the Sierras has a reflective capacity and clearness all its own, and here is verification of it. When one reads of a hunter who has been so deceived by the clarity of the Sierra water, that he has stepped into it without recognizing that there was any there present, one is incredulous; but credulity takes the place of doubt when it is at our very feet. Nay more, one is tempted to say, "Which is the mountain in this topsy-turvy scene and which is the reflection?" […]
From: Charles Quincy Turner, Yosemite Valley Through the Stereoscope, Underwood & Underwood, New York, 1902, pp. 34-35.
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