{"collection":"Native American","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/nam/ca/lly/lly12.htm","path":"nam/ca/lly/lly12.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/nam/ca/lly/lly12.htm","text":"Next to Cathedral Rocks is one of the most striking rock formations in the Valley, Cathedral Spires, called by the Indians Pu-see-na Chuck-ah, or \"mouse-proof storehouse.\" The double pinnacled towers are a real architectural structure; two monoliths of granite climbing nearly twenty-two hundred feet into the zenith, and buttressed at their base by boulders of every conceivable\nClick to enlarge\nTHE THREE BROTHERS (OR WAW-HAW-KEE).\nPhoto A. C. Pillsbury\nsize and shape piled in magnificent confusion. Nearby can still be seen a white scar on the granite marking the site of a third spire which report has it was shaken down during the earthquake of 1857, and the debris of which is said to have covered thirty acres. Aloof, dignified, sphinx-like, it is fascinating to ruminate on what miracles of evolution they have gazed, what ravages of flood and storm and glacier they have withstood.","title":"The Lore and the Lure of the Yosemite: Chapter II. The Story of Yosemite: Cathedral Spires","type":"page"}