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COLOSSEUM CHRISTMAS SHOW

... one side of the cavern have been arranged into a series of picturoeque scenes, among which are a wild beasts' lair, the Yosemite Valley, and a model circus, said to be the greatest shew asn earth bar none. Oan the opposite side of the prass1age are a ...

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... worthy to be mentioned in the same breath with the Yosemite Valley. Indeed, 3 as I look upon it I can almost believe myself atanding once more on that rugged precipice c which overlooks the mighty valley in the Sierras, I at whoae bottom winds the silver ...

ART IN LONDON

... remark- able bits of tree-painting-one, MJr J. M'WVhir- ter's Grizzly Giant (lStS), a reminiscence of a visit to the Yosemite Valley and its wonderful grove of giant Wellingtonias; and a scene nearer home, Under the Hawthorn Tree (187), which, for ...

MAGAZINES

... other sense. The Honourable George Curzo., M la MtP., gives a glowing description of the th Yosemite Valley in the State of California, tu t which he names The Valley of Waterfellafo He also refers to the Grand Canon of the of Colorado river, which for natural ...

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... , . industries, the agricultural and piscatorial re- i sources, the wonderful scenery and natural i phenomena of the Yosemite valley, the Yellow.- 1 stone and other regions, the aborigines and the i new inhabitants of the different sections, is such that ...

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... inland sea. After a visit to -the Sandwich Islands, San Francisco was then made, and a tour taken to the celebrated Yosemite Valley. The tour was completed by the author traveling by Ogden, Chicago, and Niagara, through Canada to New York, and so home ...

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... Mr Marshall in his elaborate descriptiont of the valley, which has three bieaitiful falls, the Yosemite, the Vernal, and the Nevida each with its individual and remarkable . characteristics. The, Yosemite Vallley was ?? in 1850, and along with Mariposa ...

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... and the plates, one can follow Miss Gor- lion Cumming, &iid in some measure realiso the I wondors and grandeur of the Yo-semite valley, so0 'gapllic are all hor descriptions. ulIt why t does she write all her books of travel in the form of letters'? With ...

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... mines, she went on -without tlagging to San Francisco and the Pacific coast. IThen, turning southwards, she visitod the Yosemite valley, with its falls 2600 feet high and its won~rous Sequoia~ or Weliingtontia, pines, plunged into M11exico, of which she ...

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... ad on a trip to the Yosemite Valley. Of her first aT view of that valley she thus writes :- A won- c drons glade it is, and by what words may ev better convey a notion of it to those who may be not see it for themselves. The valley, throngh TI which the ...

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... life, there are wveII~wsitten~deseripthve sketches of San foc lFrancisco, the scenery in the neighbourhood an Iof the Yosemite Valley. Japan, and thae, east th -Sfingapore. Java, and India. These travel. sleeelce so rrthough to som e classes of readers ...

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... Horn, San Francisco,: aI pnthe Hoogly, and the Canal, lands themn I at all the princical ports, conveys them up Ito the Yosem'it'e Valley, the Palaces of 'Tokio, -Ithe native Courts of Java, the Government t House at Calcutta, the Taj Mabhal of Agra, and'1 ...