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6 is about ten miles the scenery all the way is not a whit less glorious then that of Yosemite - Indeed this Tenaya Can-
on is a fork of Yosemite wh shallows gradually untill within a mile a half of Lake Tenaya. For about a mile above Mirror Lake
the Canon bottom is flat level is grandly forested with fir Douglas Spruce Libocedrus, this forest is growing upon the illegible
in portion of the Mirror Lake basin. At the head of these deleted: forest Mirror Lake groves is the Tenaya falls wh is about
80 feet high. for about 30 yds above the brink of the fall the stream deleted: flows rushes in rapids down a deleted: cold
flat open illegible pavement of granite inclined at an angle of 18 this sheet of rapids wh in high water is 75 feet wide is
deleted: splendidly varied by three parallel deleted: gutters grooves running deleted: in the direction of parallel with the
stream They have been formed by the action of the water on deleted: soft seams cleavage points? . as these deleted: gutters
grooves are variable in width slightly sinuous deleted: possessed of rounded boulders are wedged firmly in Narrow places,
they compel the swift water to leap arch Scatter itself in crystals in most 7 unanticipatable methods, thus the whole
stream deleted: stream in descending this incline is beaten into foam broidered with endless variety of living forms before
it reaches the brink, when it leaps down so feet into a deleted: sort of cross gorge flows out at bottom at right angles to
its general course somewhat like the Victoria Falls on the Zambesi? The glory of this fall is the abundance of luxuriant groviness
about it mingling with it? Its white waters issue from a tangle of evergreen trees shrubs ferns mosses flow through a tungle
into a tangle Ferns, tall woodwardias? gentle floating Mardenhairs? emerald mosses In sheltered coves ever illegible with
mealy spray are pre illegible fluxuriant fringes of Mardenhairs thickets of the tall woodwardia.