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... glory of the State. The most celebrated of the big tree groves or forests 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 composed of ...
... tree is specimen of the Bequoiaor Wellington Oigaotoa, the “big tree” of California, which forms the famons grove in the Yosemite Valley. The Bequoia is of the pine tribe and grows freely in temperate climates, but it is only in California that it has attained ...
... 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 ...
... dug occasions. KL. CAPITAN. largest granite rock in the world is called El Oaiiitan and it guards the entrance to the Yosemite Valley in California I his majestic block of granite which rises sheer from the roadway height uf 'iver thousand feet, is seven ...
... owners were paid indemnity at the rate of £26 head. The highest waterfall in the world is in the Yoseroite Valley, Mariposa Co., California. The Yosemite River drops over precipices 2,GOoft high in three separate plunges, of which the first sheer drop of 1 ...
... the rate settlement, the onler, considering the POP^ attracted; the capacity shown for growing gram fruit; the great valley the Yosemite ; the moun tains; the railway construction and steamship connections ; the substantial nature of the rapid progress ...
... immediately after returning from his extraordinary trip to the valley. M *l‘started from San Francisco Hominy the 21st of February,' said he, * having been told that 1 could not get into the valley the Big Tree route. 1 went by the River trail, reaching Mtripora ...
... Pasture.— Probably the largest and highest rock in the known world is the South Dome of the Yosemite (says Virginia paper). Standing at the fork of the upper valley, it rears itself, solid rocky loaf, 6,000 feet above the ground. more powerful hand than ...