... has many natural wonders, the chief of which is the magnificent and far famed Yosemite Valley. The Falls of Niagara are only 1631 t. high, while the fall in the Yosemite Valley down 1,600 ft. at a single bound, while there is a second lower fall of and ...

... with human life than are the clouds which mantle round their summits? Even the sky-cleaving peaks that rise from the Yosemite ' Valley, and the groves of that marvellous regions, I must, after all, be comparatively tame, with all their material magnitude ...

... trees of Palestine, VMS as nothing when in the presence of these kings of California's mountain-side. The grandeur of the Yosemite Valley was forgotten, and nothing that I had yet seen in my present journey could in any way compare with them. They seemed to ...

... many thousand years. Auierica, and expecially Calif ornia, is a land of wonders, and to the far-famed scenery of the Yosemite Valley must now be added the forest of big trees, and the rlacier pavements which Mr. Muir has found in the Sierras. Geology ...

... view is gotof the Yosemite Valley. I was disappointed. The prospect we I obscured by smoke from a burning portion of the forest, and the sky-line of the mountains was more uniform than I had expected. We looked down into a narrow valley thick set with trees ...

... Japan, and was transhipped at sea to the Paciti;wail steamer for San which was gained on October 27. Then, visiting the Yosemite Valley and Salt Lake City, I crossed the American continent to Chicago, Niagara, anl New York, and reached London November 25 ...

... general good order ' considering the population attracted; the capacity shown for growing grain and fruit; the great valley of the Yosemite; the mountains; the railway construction and steamship connections; the substantial nature of the rapid progress and ...

... be seek and its roaring never heard. Here is somethiug which rivals the wonders of the Yellowstone and is grander than the Yosemite. The point where these great precipices begin to loom up is about 100 miles ivelh-west of the Los Pinta Indian Agency. The ...

... which seems to offer a pleasant seat. iced** is now to be feared from the Indians, who the most dangerous inhabitants of the valley. There is, indeed, no seriout reason why a peaceful *odd carry firearms in these p arta. We were tepatasd to h-iw oors for ...

... takes pasession of the ground. A friend, who is a botanist, with two co.npanions, once lost the trail in the mountains above Yosemite, and they were out two .ass bef..re they found their way back. On the first night, when one or the party complained of suffering ...

... desirability of forming reserves, after the practice observed by the United States in connection with the glorious Yosemite and Yellowstone Valleys, and the principal groves of big trees, the Minister for Lands, proceeding to make :mends for his past mistake ...

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