... observe, has been wise in time. She has glorious forests, amid which tower giants of the vegetable world—those pines of the Yosemite valley, for instance—beside Which our grandest oaks would look like shrubs. She has determined not rashly to disafforest her ...

... tit Europe. In 1839, Mr. Greeley crossed the Continent to California, when he improved the occasion to visit the Yosemite Valley, where he saw the celebrated giant cedar trees, one of which—that is, the trunk which lying prostrate, m lasured up.vards ...