... the middle of June when he commences his land journey eastwards which is to bring him to the Yosemite Valley, in the re- cesses of the Sierra Nevada. This valley is intended to be the central feature of the whole tour. It is plainly a paradise on earth ...

... especially the grandeurs of its scenery, make quite a poet of him. He becomes thoroughly inspired over the beauties of the Yosemite valley and the glories of the granite peaks. The gray granite fashions itself into mansions, palaces, and cathedrals. Imagination ...

... from the children of Time, its noble yew tree has been respected by the Mighty Master. Whilst the hbiar trees of the Yosemite Valley are considered big indeed if they measure eighteen feet round the trunk, the Crowhurst yew measures nearly twenty-seven ...

... a close. MeaT.% while twvo new aced beautifully painted scenes, by Telbin, have bequ added. They are the Mirror Lake, Yosemite Valley, aud theq sceee of the laet Modoc Indian war, Lake Tule and the Lava Bads. QuEcee's Rooscs.-Oin the 30th inst. Air F. ...

... 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 ...

... jostling in that hurried and excited manner which appears to influence every- body in the United States. Thelovely valley of the Yosemite in California supplies the artist with, perhaps, the most beau- tiful picture of the exhibition. The granite craigs ...

... 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, ...

... fair sample of her lighter touches. But she has read Prof. Whitney, and goes thoroughly into the question how all these Yosemite valleys (for there are many) were hollowed out, and how the crags aroundweregrooved andpolished. She is full of odds and ends ...

... splendours of *the Golden Gate are alike vigorous and true to life. New York, Niagara, 'Frisco, the Pacinc Railway, Utah, the Yosemite Valley-these are all old stories thrice told. Mr. Marshall does not pretend they are new; but, then, he says in his preface ...

... and that it is worth a journey to California to learn what coaching really is. Words cannot describe the great valley of the Yo-Semite, nor can justice be done to Mormon women, who are extremely ugly and shockingly dressed. In fact, Sir Rose Price never ...