... Blackfriarap at present in California. In letter he just written home, dated from Scobie’s Ranch,, he passes over the Yosemite Valley and tha ' Golden Gate, &c., too well known to need description, but he linds much that is interest-.’ in in the universities ...

... visitors to Niagara have to peep the great falls between hoardings gaudy with placards, and to accept the grandeur of the Yosemite Valley along with gigantic recommendations of certain candies and chewing-gums. To be sure, neither our own country nor the Continent ...

... occurred to me that a short account of some i thie things I have seen here might be interesting tc your readers. The Yosemite Valley, the great ,vineyards, the rich mines, and the Golden Gate are so well known that there is no use writing about them. ...