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Depasture of Reinforcements for India. —On Tuesday morning a large number of troops, the number of 1,140 ..

... demands for extraordinary credits. From t:- California Farmer learn that a grove of mammoth trees has been discovered in Yosemite Valley. The first tree that was measured was eighty feet in circumference, three feet and a half from the ground; another tree ...

Published: Saturday 16 January 1858
Newspaper: Berkshire Chronicle
County: Berkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1951 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

Literature, Science, and Art

... said— Lor! is that you, sir? The midshipman went on his way laughing. A Calieornian Valley.—A correspondent of the Times gives the following description of a wonderful valley in California:—Some years since, when a fierce border warfare was raging between ...

Published: Saturday 29 January 1859
Newspaper: Berkshire Chronicle
County: Berkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 2844 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

SCIENTIFIC MEMORANDA, &c

... In the Times of the 21st is the description of a wonderful valley in California, C. D. F., called the Yosemite, or Bear Valley. The writer says: I wish to mention that near the road this valley I visited grove of the far-famed Wellingtonias, or mammoth ...

Published: Saturday 05 February 1859
Newspaper: Reading Mercury
County: Berkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1012 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

FACTS AND FACETIŒ

... the wonders of that which is still a new world. One of the grandest sights on the Pacific side is declared to be the valley of the Yosemite, the Sierra range, about 250 miles east of San Francisco. The first time a white man ever entered it was in 1841, ...

Published: Saturday 02 October 1869
Newspaper: Reading Mercury
County: Berkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1836 | Page: 8 | Tags: none

THE WELLINGTONIAS AT MARIPOSA

... Roving Correspondent of the Times writes from Sacramento, Oct. 9.—1 have just returned to this place from our Yosemite excursion. Though the valley has disappointed me, I am more than glad to have taken our forest rule and visited the big trees in the Mariposa ...

Published: Saturday 20 November 1869
Newspaper: Reading Mercury
County: Berkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 604 | Page: 8 | Tags: none

We understand that the distinction of K.C.B. is about to be conferred on Colonel Wood, Inspector of ..

... himself. Mrs. Yelverton Lost near Yosemite.—The Hon. Mr: Yelverton met with a serious misfortune on Sunday last, iattempting to leave Yosemite Valley unattended. Mrs. Ye. verton had been spending several months at the Valley, on Sunday morning started alone ...

Published: Saturday 17 December 1870
Newspaper: Berkshire Chronicle
County: Berkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1229 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

FACTS AND FACETIÆ

... California has been wise in time. Sbe has glorious forests, amid which tower giants of the vegetable world—those pines of the Yosemite Valley, for instance—beside which our grandest oaks would look like mere shrubs.— Telegraph. The Career of Sir James Simpson ...

Published: Saturday 25 May 1872
Newspaper: Reading Mercury
County: Berkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1789 | Page: 8 | Tags: none

THE YOSEMITE VALLEY, NEW CALIFORNIA

... THE YOSEMITE VALLEY, NEW CALIFORNIA The New York Times publishes long and interesting description, by Grace Greenwood, of a visit to the Yosemite Valley, from which we give extracts :— Leaving Mariposa, the party, seven in number, thoroughly enjoyed ...

Published: Saturday 28 September 1872
Newspaper: Reading Mercury
County: Berkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1218 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

THE FAMINE IN BENGAL,

... gorge or canyon than that of tbe Yosemite, but similar to it in its peculiarities towering granite cliffs and lofty waterfalls, has been recently discovered and explored. It is situated seventeen miles north the Yosemite Valley, and is called the Great Tuolumne ...

Published: Saturday 28 February 1874
Newspaper: Berkshire Chronicle
County: Berkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 3329 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

ESTABLISHED 1818

... again travelled over the PACIFIC RAILWAY, Obtaining the latest information, collecting the newest Photographs of the Yo-se-mi-te Valley, and Monster Trees, and adding other Paintings to bis well-known AMERICAN PANORAMA, Which now numbers Bd_views,Jlloslratlng ...

Published: Saturday 17 May 1879
Newspaper: Berkshire Chronicle
County: Berkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 181 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

FIELD ROOTS

... again travelled over the PACIFIC RAILWAY, Obtaining the latest information, collecting the newest Photographs of the Yo-se-mi-te Valley and Monster Trees, and adding other Paintings to h is well-known AMERICAN PANORAMA, Which now numbers 38 views, illustrating ...

Published: Saturday 24 May 1879
Newspaper: Reading Observer
County: Berkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 814 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

AGRICULTURE

... rays that the biggest tree in the world is not in California, as everyone supposed but in Australia. The champion of the Yosemite Valley must give way to the p-ppermiot trees on the Dandenong range hills in Australia. Baron Von Mullen. who is a great authority ...

Published: Saturday 05 November 1881
Newspaper: Reading Observer
County: Berkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1304 | Page: 3 | Tags: none