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... weeks beneath its course, g.ave it a perspective likec is that of Martin's pictures. We said it was avortha coming toI thle Yosemite lil t were only to beheld such at aceno as thatr.P Altogether, what with the burning forest, the bark wigwams by which we ...

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... ballad5. a,5 tLIe author's analysis of them shows IIo)caiuof the genius of early Scot. I a hd potlrY Ia s sle sipltiou of The Yosemite ti'ta ptey an ts 5.igntic waterfalls-the most re- Ro narkabi of ias many remarkable features of Cali- o fonaitr sener-I alor ...

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... present form it cannot fail 'to' gain many new the admirers. The Nevada Falls, ithe. big trees of sobes Calaveras, the.Yosemite Valley, and other; remark- light able sights are well described and illustrated, and the of t work also contains a good- general' ...

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... remark- able bits of tree-painting-one, MJr J. M'WVhir- ter's Grizzly Giant (lStS), a reminiscence of a visit to the Yosemite Valley and its wonderful grove of giant Wellingtonias; and a scene nearer home, Under the Hawthorn Tree (187), which, for ...

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... Mr Marshall in his elaborate descriptiont of the valley, which has three bieaitiful falls, the Yosemite, the Vernal, and the Nevida each with its individual and remarkable . characteristics. The, Yosemite Vallley was ?? in 1850, and along with Mariposa ...

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... , . industries, the agricultural and piscatorial re- i sources, the wonderful scenery and natural i phenomena of the Yosemite valley, the Yellow.- 1 stone and other regions, the aborigines and the i new inhabitants of the different sections, is such that ...

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... worthy to be mentioned in the same breath with the Yosemite Valley. Indeed, 3 as I look upon it I can almost believe myself atanding once more on that rugged precipice c which overlooks the mighty valley in the Sierras, I at whoae bottom winds the silver ...

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... Horn, San Francisco,: aI pnthe Hoogly, and the Canal, lands themn I at all the princical ports, conveys them up Ito the Yosem'it'e Valley, the Palaces of 'Tokio, -Ithe native Courts of Java, the Government t House at Calcutta, the Taj Mabhal of Agra, and'1 ...

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... life, there are wveII~wsitten~deseripthve sketches of San foc lFrancisco, the scenery in the neighbourhood an Iof the Yosemite Valley. Japan, and thae, east th -Sfingapore. Java, and India. These travel. sleeelce so rrthough to som e classes of readers ...

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... inland sea. After a visit to -the Sandwich Islands, San Francisco was then made, and a tour taken to the celebrated Yosemite Valley. The tour was completed by the author traveling by Ogden, Chicago, and Niagara, through Canada to New York, and so home ...

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... hurry in the I correction of his proofs, his literary work is a-t the kindI that he who rims may read. Even 'n the Yosemite Valley, in the presence of water- °alls of over 2500 feet, he is cnrt, direct, and I cwift, as if, in writing also, nothing is ...

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... and the plates, one can follow Miss Gor- lion Cumming, &iid in some measure realiso the I wondors and grandeur of the Yo-semite valley, so0 'gapllic are all hor descriptions. ulIt why t does she write all her books of travel in the form of letters'? With ...