The Kenosha telegraph and tribune. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1859-1860, 1859-08-18
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ind the water consequently takes 4 curv;np
leap and falls in thin white sheet. as nearly re-.
sembling fine gauze vail anything. Az You
stand beside it and look up, you can see under
he water at the top where it takes its leap, and
behold the rocks and bushes beyond. The
.racefulness and beauty of this cascade cannot
De excelled. You might look at it for hours and
not tire. g
The next in order is the Yo-hGmite Fall,
which is formed by the stream of that name
which enters the Valley at right angle with its
ength on the side opposite to the Bridal vail..-
The water pours over perpendicular Hedge q
distance of eighteen hundred feet at its first
sunge, and falls into vast chasm, from which
t soon energies again, and falls four hundeed
eet, striking the rocks and then taking final
perpendicular leap of six hundred feet more.
making tacentyeight hundred feet in all and form
ng the highest known cataract in the world -
Some idea of the vast distance may be had from
he fact that the sheet of water, which measures
Eighty feet in width at the top, appears
rom the bottom not to exceed eighteen inches
IN width, aud one may count fifteen while the
water is making the first fall Think Of body
# water falling from the highest steeple in New
York, and then multiply the distance by fifteen,
r think of a cataract as high as st. Peters at
Rome, and multiply it by six-and you have an
approximation to the idea of this tremendous
stural wonder. Niagara Falls, though far
greater in the volume of water, are only one
auudred and sixty feet high. or little more than
| twentieth of this /! Passaic Falls are seventy
eet, those of the Nile forty, others arc one hun.
lred, and few are known at FIVE or six hun
iIed while in the Alps are some cascades said
to be one thousand or twelve hundred, or svea
fourteen hundred feet high
Some six miles further up the Valley are the
Vernal Falls on the MERGED, which are about
800 feet in perpendicular descent, land half a mile
further, on the same stream, are the Nevada
Falls. abeut 800 feet. Still further up the river
is another fall, which was not accessible to us.
but which is said to be as remarkable as these
wo; while on the south fork of the MERGED met
lar distant from these, may be seen still another
fall of probably from 600 to 1000 feet, but which
is as yet unapproachable by ordinary visitors,no
trail having been opened to it. How many 9th
or wonders exist in this strange locality is not
KNOWN, but will one day be revealed to the as
tonished visitors to this remarkable region.
Nothing can exceed the wildness and gran.
deur of the scene amid which you stand, on the
space between the Vernal and Nevada Falls, az
ter you have passed through the spray OF the
former, getting completely wet, and assembled
the ladders and surmounted the rocks to reach
the level from which the stream makes its
plunge. Looking down, you see perfect bs-
sin of half mile in diameter, with sides 1000
teet high, into which the river rolls over the
precipice, and goes dsshing and foaming in rap
ids below. You look around and see " Alps DER
Alps arise on either hand the sides of the can
on appearing as high as when you were in the
valley below. You then turn square around.
and the Nevada Falls are in full view. You
stand where few white men have ever stood and
where even the Indian seldom if ever climb, and
where the grizzly sbear unquestionably made
his favorite lair, amid the mansineta bushes
which there abound, and whose fruit forms it's
favorite food. ~,
But must not dwell longer on these sceneS.
We spent four days among them, and were then
unwilling to leave. To avoid long and hard
days ride to the first house on our return, we
left the Valley about o'clock in the afternoon
and assembled the mountains, and at the end of
ten miles, selected our ground beside clear
mountain stream. and under the finest trees
''camped" for the night. Our guide picketed
our animals where they could feed, made us q
cup for rather tin porringer) Of tea, and spread
out our lunch of bread, dried beef, can fruit,etc
of which we made hearty meal, and then, be-
taking ourselves to our blankets, we composed
ourselves to sleep upon the soft ground, undes
the branching trees. The full moon shown up,
on us all night, the cool breezes famed us, and
in this dry and bracing mountain climate we
rested and arose with the dawn of day. refreshed
and in no m sasure the worse for our apparent
exposure in our novel dormitory.
Dispatching our breakfast, we mounted our
horses again at 5, and reached our stopping
place for the next night at P. NJ. Halfa days
ride more, carried us to Coulterville again,
whence we took stage for Stockton, and thence
by steamer came to this city, which we reached
Friday morning of the next week after we left
home: Beecher says mo one has seen the world
till he has been in Chicago" I would say no
ono has seen nature till he has been in CalifoY.
mia, and especially in the Yo-hsmite Valley.
Yours, ETC., j. c. Fl.