... grow to mo feet in height —grew at the entrance of the valley which Bierstadt has painted. Stupendous masses of granite, presenting a sublime precipice of 6000 feet high, rise up from the Yosemite valley. A waterfall dashes down its colossal sides, beating ...

... A GROVE OF MAMMOTH TREES.—From the Californian Farmer we learn that a grove of mammoth trees has been discovered in Yosemite Valley. The first tree that was measured was 80 feet in circumference three feet and a-half from the ground; another tree was ...

... struggle had no special interest, as my route was already chosen. I had made up my mind to see, in the first instance, the Yosemite Valley and the Big Trees, and then to cross the Plains, via Salt Lake City, to the Eastern States. Looked at from a distance ...

... the hook is at p. 89, depicting a string of mules and passengers zigzagging down the steep side of a mountain into the Yosemite Valley, and looking as if every step would send them headlong over the precipice. Bitter Sweets . a Love Story. In Three Vols ...

... saddle on the day after that last described. At the end of our ride to-day we were to reach a hotel situated right in the Yosemite Valley itself. started at six, continuing the trail which had brought us to Black's the night before. It led us along crooked ...

... does not end with its natural scenery, or mineral resources, not muchly, as poor Attemus Ward would have said. The Yosemite Valley is doubtless one of the grandest of its kind; the Geysers are as remarkable as those of Iceland; the Alabaster Cave—now ...