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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

BRACKNELL

... visited Canton. They afterwards spent a month Japan, after which they crossed the Pacific to San Francisco, and visited the Yosemite Valley. Going north to Vancouver, they crossed the Rocky Mountains, by the Canadian Pacific, and travelled by the great lakes ...

Published: Saturday 19 July 1890
Newspaper: Reading Mercury
County: Berkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 335 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

LITERATURE

... Recollections. Miss C. Gordon-Curamirig contributes one her interesting travel papers recounting her experiences In the Yosemite Valley. She speaks with enthusiasm of the beauties of the scenery, and especially of the profusion of flowers— thickets of ...

Published: Saturday 15 September 1883
Newspaper: Reading Mercury
County: Berkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 781 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

FOREIGN NEWS

... Francisco, the remainder of tbe journey being made by water. On their return the Royal party will probably visit the Yosemite Valley, where they will be the guests of the artist Bierstadt. FRANCE. A duel with swords has been fought Paris, between M. Diehard ...

Published: Saturday 09 September 1882
Newspaper: Reading Mercury
County: Berkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1089 | Page: 4 | 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

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

The Orpheus Concert. The first Subscribers' Concert of the Reading Orpheus Society will take place in the Large ..

... from China to Peru. The views begin at Balmoral and end in Battersea Park, visiting en route Liverpool, New York, the Yosemite Valley, the Sandwich Islands, New Zealand, Africa, Palestine, and every country in Europe. The globe-trotting process is performed ...

Published: Saturday 19 January 1895
Newspaper: Reading Mercury
County: Berkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 2735 | Page: 5 | 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

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