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 pact circle of the great grizzly rock of Yosemite. It does not seem so sublime at first, but the mote is in your own eye. It is great, great; but it takes you days to see how great. It lies 2,000 feet under your feet, and as it reflects its walls so perfectly that you can not tell the wall from the reflection in the intensely blue water you have a continuous unbroken circular wall of 24 miles to contemplate at a glance, all of which lies 2,000 feet and seems to lie 4,000 feet below. Yet 8o bright, so intensely blue is the lake, that it seems at times, from some points of view, to rise right in your face.**

Clear Lake. Crater Lake, The Gulf of Mexico, The Mediterranean Sea, and Clear Lake, under certain atmos- CLEAB LAKE

pheric conditions, are as blue as indigo. But the latter body of water is famous for its clearness. The waters of Clear Lake are crystalline, and they magnify objects until a shining substance can be seen farther under water than upon the dry land; hence the lake is said to be clearer than the air. One reason assigned for its remarkable clearness