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| | In the Heart of the Sierras: Chapter 28: The Upper Yo Semite, Eagle Peak, Lake Ten-ie-ya, and High Sierra, by James M. ... |
 | | I once saw seven eagles here, at play; they would skim out upon the air, one following the other, and then swoop perpendicularly down for a thousand or more feet, and thence sail out again horizontally upon the air with such graceful nonchalance that one almost envied them their apparent gratification. |
 | | On every peak, mountain shoulder and bare ledge, where disintegration has not removed the writing, the record is so plain that "he who runs may read." This is most strikingly manifest from the Hoffmann Ridge down to Lake Ten-ie-ya. |
 | | Not only are there lofty and isolated single peaks without number, but distinct groups of mountains, that form the sources of as many streams, or their tributaries; with broad lakes and deep cañons on every hand, extending as far as human vision can penetrate, but of which Mt. Lyell seems to be the center. |
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