And these crystals are just like globes of light."
The fallen snow crystals are quite feathery like thistledown.
The ice crystals that first fell this afternoon were very large.
It stood on the top of a high mountain and is built of gold and silver bricks, and the windows are pure diamond crystals.
In October the nights are frosty, and then the meadows at sunrise, when every leaf is laden with crystals, are a fine sight.
In sedimentary rocks there may be produced crystals of mica and of GARNET (a mineral as hard as quartz, commonly occurring in red, twelve-sided crystals).
At first sight only these radiant crystals are likely to be noticed, but looking closely you discover a multitude of very small gilias, phloxes, mimulus, etc., many of them with more petals than leaves.
Most of the broad summit is comparatively level and thick sown with crystals, quartz, mica, hornblende, feldspar, granite, zircon, tourmaline, etc., weathered out and strewn closely and loosely as if they had been sown broadcast.
Northward lies Yosemite's wide basin with its domes and small lakes, shining like larger crystals; eastward the rocky, meadowy Tuolumne region, bounded by its snowy peaks in glorious array; southward Yosemite and westward the vast forest.