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OCCASIONAL NOTES

... profound. commotion, especially among Hindoos. Mr. Taylor, a Californian by birth, is said to have been converted in the Yosemite Valley, and baptized by immersion under The Bridal Veil. But for the truth of this we cannot vouch. The Civil Rights Bill does ...

Published: Thursday 25 March 1875
Newspaper: Pall Mall Gazette
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 4093 | Page: 5 | Tags: News 

VARIORUM NOTES

... 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 ...

Published: Saturday 17 February 1877
Newspaper: The Examiner
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 3841 | Page: 26 | Tags: News 

Our Illustrations

... and that it would be a national disgrace if Niagara Falls were not rescued from the hands of speculators, and, like Yosemite V'alley, be rendered public property, protected by the State, and free to all the world. Accordingly last year, Governor Robinson ...

Published: Saturday 09 October 1880
Newspaper: Graphic
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 5100 | Page: 8 | Tags: News 

Our Illustrations

... York. Run up and have a look at Niagara, then by rail to 'Frisco, calling in upon Brigham Young by the way, visit the Yosemite Valley and the big trees, cross the herring. pond to Yokohama, run down the China coast, rail from Cal- cutta to Bombay, taking ...

Published: Saturday 05 September 1874
Newspaper: Graphic
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 5041 | Page: 6 | Tags: News 

OCCASIONAL NOTES

... profound comlmnotion, especially among Hindoos. Mr. Taylor, a Californian by birth, is said to have been converted in the Yosemite Valley, and baptized by immersion under The Bridal Veil. But for the truth of this we cannot vouch. t u 'The (ivil Rights ...

Published: Thursday 25 March 1875
Newspaper: Pall Mall Gazette
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 4347 | Page: 5 | Tags: News 

LONDON. FRIDAY, AUGUST 21

... fe~et or so, the consequences will he to him just the same as though ho had plunged down some of the awful steeps in the Yosemite Valley. Some- tim~es the acknowledged danger of a feat becomes' its safety. People are rather proud of haviug acopihdthe passage ...

Published: Friday 21 August 1874
Newspaper: Daily News (London)
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 6893 | Page: 5 | Tags: News 

LONDON, TUESDAY, JULY 1

... have done. But in Europe we seem to know only of Niagaraand the Colorado scenes painted by Mr.BWMeSTA]D and perhaps the Yosemite Valley. wehave too seldom been alloed to j udge of the wondrous autumnal tints along the hills of the Hudson; of the scenery ...

Published: Tuesday 01 July 1873
Newspaper: Daily News (London)
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 7539 | Page: 5 | Tags: News 

THE EXAMINER

... 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 ...

Published: Saturday 21 February 1880
Newspaper: The Examiner
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 9817 | Page: 9 | Tags: News 

A TOUR THROUGH NORWAY

... scenery over wild moun- tain plateaux, and the Roomndal, or Valley of the Rauma, opens out to the west. Some twenty-five miles in length, and hardly exceeding a mile in breadth, this grand valley is shut in by pre- cipices some 2,000 feet in height, from ...

Published: Saturday 14 December 1878
Newspaper: Graphic
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 946 | Page: 16 | Tags: News 

THE LATE BISHOP OF WINCHESTER

... his way feeling that Kansas City had received a compliment. The walls of Farnham Castle abound with photographs of the Yosemit: Valley | and other reminiscences of the Bishop's American travels. It was on a voyage home from New York that the amusing encounter ...

Published: Saturday 27 July 1895
Newspaper: Pall Mall Gazette
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 576 | Page: 3 | Tags: News 

The Revolution in Hawaii

... which cling and wave in cracks and crevices. The Iao Valley has been justly compared with the most famous valleys of the world. It is conceived on a scale of grandeur hardly inferior to the Yosemite, while in colour and richness and profusion of beauty ...

Published: Saturday 04 February 1893
Newspaper: Graphic
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 5785 | Page: 17 | Tags: News 

ROYAL INSTITUTE OF PAINTERS IN WATER-COLOURS

... effect of daylight. Mr. Simpsons' Yosemite Fllls helps us to realise one of the world's wonders. The rocky cliffs rise into the dark blue sky, and the water thunders down, falling a depth of over 2,000 feet into a valley green with luxuriant vegetation ...

Published: Tuesday 08 May 1888
Newspaper: Daily News (London)
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 1520 | Page: 6 | Tags: News