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Title: Picturesque America; or, The land we live in. A delineation by pen and pencil of the mountains, rivers, lakes, forests, water-falls, shores, cañons, valleys, cities, and other picturesque features of our country
Year: 1872 (1870s)
Authors: Bryant, William Cullen, 1794-1878, editor Bunce, Oliver Bell, 1828-1890
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Publisher: New York, D. Appleton
Contributing Library: University Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Digitizing Sponsor: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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form of gran-ite, rose more than two thousand feet ; all about were heights and depths, grand to lookup to, terrible to look into. We had rejoined our guide and horses, and, passing througha clump of dark-looking firs that clustered at the foot of the Nevada Fall, we came outupon a slide of freshly-fractured, glistening granite that seemed impassable, but a way hadbeen made, and up this avalanche of rock our horses betook themselves, climbing withwonderful pluck and sureness of foot. But one beast had shown a spirit of insubordina-tion, so the guide had tied him close to a leader. At each angle of the zigzagging trailhe would balk, refusing to follow; the other horse, keeping on regardless, pulled the ob-stinate creature into predicaments from which he could not extricate himself; then eachpulled against the other, utterly indifferent as to consequences. In one of these conteststhe foothold of the leader gave way, and, in an instant, a confused mass of horse, an in- THE YOSEMITE. 491
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extricable jumble of heads, legs, andtails, to say nothing of kettles andfrying-pans, came bounding towardme; leaving the trail, the horsesturned two or three somersaultsamong the broken rocks below, andthen lay still. We clambered quick-ly down to them; they were notdead, did not even have any bonesbroken—their packs had saved them.One, lying wedged, with his feet inthe air, received our first attention ;ropes and straps were cut, and three of us undertook to roll the beast out of his position.No sooner did we get him to where he could use his legs, than he made one vehementeffort, and we were tossed like children. I remember seeing a bald head, followed by a fullcomplement of arms and legs, fly past me, as though projected from a catapult; the guideseemed to sink out of sight, and something, that struck very much after the manner of atrip-hammer, spread me on my back. In an instant we were upon our feet, to find thatthe horse had fallen upon the guide, who was lying under him pinn

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