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... remarked to Lady Howard, Well, I guess it's what they're paid for, and so they've just got to do it. Of course, the Yosemite Valley was visited, and the famous Mariposa big trees, few of which are less than 380 ft. high, or 80 ft. in girth. Then, turning ...

REVIEWS

... unpretentious, and makes no violent effort to instruct. The authoress's- account of her entry into and journey through the Yosemite Valley is a most realistic bit of writing. We remember well that exciting drive through the Sierras. And so accurate is the ...

At Home and Abroad

... travel published for many a tay. *Life with Tcaos-Siberiain Savages. By B. Douglas Howard. (Longmnans). THE YOSEMITE * The Yosemite Valley is one of the showplaces of America, and were it not situated in such an out-of-the-way spot in the centre of ...

Published: Saturday 23 September 1893
Newspaper: Graphic
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 1769 | Page: 27 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture 

ODDS AND ENDS

... weeks yet. l{. F. D.: I'll ?? Bulletlin. Aecording to the Cycle the largest tree in tibe world is to be found in tlhe Yosemite Valley, California. It is celled the Grizzly, and is M~ft. in ditunteroand 3t0ft. high. Within an area of fifty acres no fewer ...

THE THEATRES

... diorama, as if the traveller had left the train. Each scene is a master-work, h from the cour d'honmeur in Chicago to the g Yosemite Valley and the fiery lake at Hawaii, a and thence to the eruption of the Fountain- y gaiser and. the coloured rocks of the great ...

THEATRES

... suicide as the only way out of his troubles. THE FAMOUS YOSEMITE VALLEY in California is completely snow-bound, owing to the severe weather in the Western States Snow lies four feet deep in the valley, and is from six to ten feet in depth on the surrounding ...

Published: Saturday 15 February 1890
Newspaper: Graphic
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 2539 | Page: 8 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture 

MARCH REVIEWS AND MAGAZINES

... 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 ...