... testing the strength of the back. Rising with the sun next morning, wve hired two horses, in order to proceed to the Yosemite valley. The distance was variously estimated as from forty to sixty mites, and we found that it wts impossible to procure a guide ...

... emerges from the forest, and finds himself the brink of tremendous pre-1 cipice full view of the Yosemite Valley, lying 3,500 feet below him. The valley is 12 miles long, and about u mile and wide, and is, in fact, a great chasm shut in both sides by ...