... Colorado, where his collection of plants exceeded expectation, he crossed, in company with Professor Asa Gray, to the Yosemite Valley, the home of the big trees, and subsequently visited San Francisco and Sacramento. All Sir Joseph's friends will rejoice ...

... The trips into the interior to the gold and quicksilver mines, &c., are very interesting, and all visitors describe the Yosemite Valley, where the trees are some thirty feet in diameter, as'a sight worth coming from Europe to see. The population of San Francisco ...

... Canton. They afterwards spent a month in Japan after which they crossed the Pacific to San Francisco, and visited the Yosemite Valley. Going north to Vancouver, they crossed the Rocky Mountains by the Canadian Pacific, and travelled by the great lakes ...