The Tiffin weekly tribune. (Tiffin, Ohio) 1859-1868, 1868-08-06


melting and the streams are bank
full, 80 that the volume Of the cata.
racts is very great. The famous Yo.
semitic Fall, which is opposite Mr..
Hutchinson's house, is tue great
thing in the waterfall way, and it's
ceaseless roar strikes on the ear by
night and day, until one is almost
weary of its persistent monotoue.--
The Bridal Veil, with its delicate
sheen of water falling $40 feet per-
pendicularly, is the most beautiful Of
all the cataracts, but this savage Yo.
semitic, plunging madly in a wild
foam of snowy, srrowy, downward
falling sky.roekets sixteen hundred
feet at one leap, is terrible thing to
look nt The second or middle stage
of the fall is almost unseen, except
from certain points, but the lower
fall Of the cataract, six hundred feet
high, is grand aud fascinating. 49,
Around it's base. among the lofty
pines which shut it in, are now hugo
banks of snow twenty or thirty feet
deep under which the water ruus in
rapid torrents, seen at the bases of
the circular pits, which are melted
around the great trees which grow up
through the snow One never wen
ries Of gazing upon the giaut force of
the great fall of the Yosemite. Sud-
denly plunging over the dizzy cliff it
seems to fall from out the sky, and,
in the vast volume, or detached in
down flying rockets, it precipitates
itself upon the rocks aud snow be.
meath with q sullcu roar. By n de
yious path we climbed over the face
of the precipice aud stood at the bot
tom of this great upper fall. The
summer air was rudely agitated by a
rushing mighty wind which swept ut
from the falling torrent aud was
drenched with binding showers of
spray, which filled the whole va re.
cess down which the water leapcd
To pass into the haunt Of wind aud
waters, was to pass from balmy sum
mer into the chserloss rains oil
winter.
Another pilgrimage to Nevada and
Nernal Falls was amply rewarded by
sublime and solemn sights. Climb
ing mountain trail we donnod gum
coats, aud, turuing a sharp angle il
the mountain wall, came upon the
Vernal Fall, which is $50 feet high
and tumbles over level ledge oI
rocks. The spray from this cataract
is ike heavy rain, aud is driver
si arply over the slippery and grassy
slope o. the right, after which We
pass to the ladders leading to the
ledge above. Once on the rock )
prccipice that forms a vaulting place
for the falls, We dud ourselves in {
new world 1t isE succession Of won
dcrs The stream which foams nea'
the Vernal Fall is traced along IT.
noisy and rocky way back to the bas'
of the Nevada Fall, aboHt hall
mile back or above the yer7al.-
Here we can look back at the gr9eI
curve Of the top of one cataract mn
forward to the snowy terrors Of. au.-
other, both being united by the
foaming torrent which pluuges thro
it's rocky walls, white with foamy
falls.
Overlooking all these rises tho
magnificent rocky dome of "The CAP
of Liberty" 1900 feet above tho
valley. This peak, like many others
has had sundry titles, its last before
the present being "Bellows Butte.
can testify to its being windy
piece, but there is no other reason
why the name of the eminent divine
Mr.. Bellows, should be put there
From the apex, which we reached af
ter long and laborious climb, W,
could see a glorious panorama o
mountain, streams, and valley. w
could look down upon the Nevad
Fail, which, far below us, at the bas
of the rocky peak on which we stoo,
took it's final plunge of 700 feet, fret
ted with foam and sending up it
hollow roar Turning our backs up
on the valley, we could see the snow
range of the Sierras, from whence ar
drawn so many mountain streams
and whence come the torrents whic
dash in wild, forceful grandeur int
the Yosemite Valley, or, ribbon like
slide over smooth precipices for
space, and then sullenly take thci
quiet leap into the mountainou
masses of pines below, The Dome
are noble objects in the landscap,
but the labor Of climbing them
very great.