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3 illegible foam on the projecting shelves and knobs of its jagged gorge. No two falls could be more unlike, Tueeulala.out
in the open sunshine descending like thistledown; Wapama in a jagged shadowy gorge roaring and thundering, pounding its way
with the weight and energy of an avalanche. Besides this glorious pair there is a broad massive fall on the main river a short
distance above the head of the Valley. Its position is something like that of the Vernal in Yosemite, and its roar as it plunges
into a surging trout-pool may be heard a long way though it is only about twenty feet high. There is also a chain of magnificent
cascades at the head of the Valley on a stream that comes in from the north-east, mostly silvery plumes, like the one between
the Vernal and Neveda falls of Yosemite, half sliding half leaping on bare glacier-polished granite, covered with crisp clashing
spray into which the sunbeams pour with glorious effect. And besides all these a few small streams come over the walls here
and there, leaping from ledge to ledge with bird-like song and watering many a bidden cliff-garden and fernery, but they are
too unshowy to be noticed .in so grand a place. The correspondence between the Hetch Hetchy walls in their trends, sculpture,
physical structure, and general arrangement of the main rock-masses has excited the wondering admiration of every observer.
We have seen that the El Capitan and Cathedral rocks occupy the same relative positions in both valleys, so also do their
Yosemite Points and North Domes. Again that part of the Yosemite north wall immediately to the east of the Yosemite Pall has
two horizontal benches timbered with Gold-cup oak at about 500 and 1500 feet above the floor. Two benches similarly situated
and timbered occur on the same relative portion of the Hetch Betchy north wall, to the east of Wapama Fall, and on no other.
The Yosemite is bounded at the bead by the great Half Dome. Hetch Betchy is bounded in the same way though its head rock is
far less wonderful and sublime in form.