... without scruple or pity the moment they strive to escape its clutches. The author gives a lively description of the Yosemite Valley as well as of San Francisco, and his brief account of British Columbia will be read with interest. As we'have already ...

... WVallace contributes a study il physical geography, under the title of ?? Inaccessible Valleys, in which will be found a good deal of useful information about the Yosemite. Mr. Jackson is so good an authority on architecture that his paper criticising it ...

... picture of the giant precipices on the Formosan coast, whose sheer height of five thousand feet or so dwarfs the cliffs of the Yosemite to nothingness, mnakes the sea wall of Hoy, in the Orkneys, sink into insignificance, and overtops, by more than double, ...