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5. flowed to the very foot of the range. Already it is clear that all of the upper basins were filled with ice, so deep
and universal that but few of the ridges were sufficiently high to separate it into individual glaciers. Vast mountains were
flowed over, and rounded or moved away like boulders in a river. Ice flowed into Yosemite by every one of its canons, and
at a comparatively recent period of its history, its north wall, with perhaps the single exception of the crest of Eagle Cliff,
was covered with an unbroken stream of ice, the several glaciers having united before coming to the wall. -- -- JOHN MUIR
Yosemite Valley California