... transhipped at sea to the Pacific mail steamer for San Francisco, which was gained on October 27. Then, visiting the Yosemite Valley and Salt Lake City, I crossed the American continent to Chicago, Niagara., and New York, and reached London, on November ...

... trees of Palestine, we. as nothing when in the presence of these kings of California's mountain-side. The grandeur of the Yosemite Valley wan forgotten, and nothing that I had yet seen in my present journey could in any way compare with them. They seemed to ...

... chief glory of the State. The celebrated of the big tree groves or formai is in Mariposa county, about 20 miles from the Yosemite Valley, 30 miles south-east of the town of Mariposa, and 140 miles almost due east of San Francisco. This grove is cornof over ...

... claim to the of the tallest and I, root tree in the world (says tk• St. Owatte). berry one has read of the marvels of the Yosemite Valley, and the Yellowstone Park, the huge patio, at eportiog.ground of the United States. Cut what are the giants of Call. torah' ...

... Priarcar.—Pniliably the largest and highest rock in the known world is the South Dome of the Yosemite Virginia paper). Steading at the fork of the upper valley, it rear. itself solid rocky loaf ' 6,4) feet shove the • powerful hand than that of Titan 6ri ...

... desirability of forming reserves, after the practice observed by the United States in connection with the glorious Yosemite and Yellowstone Valleys, and the principal groves of big trees, the Minister for Lands, to make mends for his past iiiirtske, bas, says ...