... 'suddenly emerges from the forest, and finds himself on the brink of tremendous precipice full view of the Yosemite Valley lying 3,500 feet below him. The valley is twelve miles long, and a mile and half wide, and is, fact, great chasm shut in on both sides by ...

... himself. Interesting Discovery.—Recent travellers in California have discovered in the range of the Sierra Nevada, the Yosemite Valley. It is enclosed by perpendicular walls of granite in some places 4,884 feet, or nearly a mile, shear down. It has waterfalls ...