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... GRovE OF MAsIfxoTH TREES..-From the Californian Farmer we learn that a grove of mammotll g trees has been discovered in Yosemite Valley. The e first tree that was measured was 80 feet in circum- s ference, three feet and a-half from the ground; an- ?? other ...

Published: Monday 01 February 1858
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 920 | Page: 2 | Tags: News 

MISCELLANEOUS NEWS

... emerges from the forest, and finds himself on the brink of a tremendous precipice in full view of the Yosemite Valley, lying 31500 feet below him. The valley is twelve miles long, and about a nlile and a-half wide, and is, in fact, a great chasm shut in on ...

Published: Saturday 22 January 1859
Newspaper: The Examiner
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 4080 | Page: 11 | Tags: News 

GENERAL INTELLIGENCE

... WONDERFUL CALIFORNIAN. VALLEY.- C. D. F. writes :- During a recent tour in California I paid a visit to a valley which, in scenic loveliness and grandeur, - is, as far as I can learn, quite unrivalled. The Yose- m mite (Bear) Valley is situated in the ...

Published: Friday 28 January 1859
Newspaper: Hull Packet
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: | Words: 10958 | Page: 3 | Tags: News 

FOREIGN MISCELLANY

... a company of these backwoodsmen at last came upon the valley of which I am about to speak, and which had proved so effectuala ceckie for the stealings of the Indians. The Yosemite (Bear) Valley is situated in the beautiful range of the Sierra Nevada ...

Published: Saturday 29 January 1859
Newspaper: Preston Chronicle
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 6040 | Page: 2 | Tags: News 

A WONDERFUL VALLEY

... forest, and flilns himself oil tile brtink of a trementidous pre- ti cipice in full view of the Yosemite Valley, lyiug 35Uu feet oL below him. The valley is 12 miles long, and] about a mile and a-balf ti wide, and is, in fact, a gre at chasm s aut in ...

Published: Saturday 29 January 1859
Newspaper: Oxford Journal
County: Oxfordshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 2308 | Page: 3 | Tags: News 

LATEST AND TELEGRAPHIC NEWS

... emerges from the forest and finas li:ni-ielf on the brink of a tremendous precipice in full view of the Yosemite Valley, lvine 31500 feet blerw him. The valley is twelve miifes Yong and about a mile and a-half wide, and i-, in fact, a great chasm shut in ons ...

Published: Saturday 05 February 1859
Newspaper: Liverpool Mercury
County: Lancashire, England
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THE WESTERN WORLD

... the wonders of that which la stilla new world. One of the grandest eights on the Paoific side is declared to be the valley of Yosemite, in the Sierra range, about 250 miles east of San Francisco, The first time a white man ever entered It was in 1848 ...

Published: Saturday 25 September 1869
Newspaper: Glasgow Herald
County: Lanarkshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1230 | Page: 7 | Tags: News 

GOLDEN CALIFORNIA

... correspondent of the '[tees, writ. ing from Sential Hotel, Yosemite Vailcy, on Satur- day, Oct. 2, says We left San Francisco on Tuiesda~y af terrnoon, and reached the bottom of the Vosemnite Valley at 3-40 p~m. yesterday (Friday), getting to this, the first ...

Published: Wednesday 10 November 1869
Newspaper: Belfast News-Letter
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 4565 | Page: 3 | Tags: News 

AMONG THE WELLINGTONIAS

... glare for weeks beneath its course, gave it a perspective like that of Martin's pictures. We said it was worth coming to the Yosemite if it were only to behold such a scene as that. Alto. gather, what with the burriog forest, the bark wig. wamsI by which ...

Published: Thursday 18 November 1869
Newspaper: Glasgow Herald
County: Lanarkshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1004 | Page: 7 | Tags: News 

NEW YORK TO SAN FRANCISCO.—VIII

... Englishman has not found rivals who have strorg claims to be regarded as superiors. I do not maintain that the steamer Yo-Semite, by which these remarks have been suggested, is by any means a model craft. Th boats on the River Hudson, and those which ...

Published: Thursday 20 January 1870
Newspaper: Daily News (London)
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 4100 | Page: 5 | Tags: News 

MISCELLANEOUS

... Gate, v chich left en thle 2Gth of March, bound for Liverpool. n 7lie Cerastes boat the Yosemite by four days, arriving on P 1W ednesday aftbrnoon, and the Yosemite off Quecustown tD ThiStlay. Vt The uniltslsitl case of a bankrulpt with assets far nI excesc ...

Published: Thursday 14 July 1870
Newspaper: Leeds Mercury
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 12880 | Page: 7 | Tags: News