... emerges from the forest, and finds himself on the brink of a tremendous precipice in full view of the Yosemite Valley, lying 31500 feet below him. The valley is twelve miles long, and about a nlile and a-half wide, and is, in fact, a great chasm shut in on ...

... from the other state. The last syllable of New Orleans rhymes with means, a fact by no means generally known; and the Yosemite Valley is a frequent trouble. The examples of such names whose correct sound has been strangely distorted, even in the House ...

... three hundred steamers have lately burst on that part of the Hudson River which connects the State of New York with the Yosemite Valley through the Mammoth Cave in Kentucky. If all stories are true, the present Lord Advocate, the chief Ciovernment official ...

... Yazoo River, and not to any particular spot. Major Savage made a similar blunder when he named the Yosemite Valley in California, under the idea that Yosemite was the name for the grizzly bear, the emblem of the Golden State. It means no such thing. In ...