... has beome • decided haunting horror. On the noble cliffs of the Rockies, and the precipitous crags of Colorado, and the Yosemite Valley, the quack patent pill promoter and the scented soap-boiler vie with each other in defacing Nature. Even on the very ...

... and in less than an hour it came up the Ivory stairs below the Falls. The grandeur. sublimity, and beauty of the famous Yosemite Valley, near the centre of the State of California, and which is probably unequalled in the world is delightfully described, ...

... height of the mountain walls being 5000 feet, or a perpendicular mile. At the bottom of this appalling gorge is no smiling valley or wooded glade ; nothing but a great river surging angrily along a rocky bed and chafing with eternal thunder against its ...