... especially the grandeurs of its scenery, make quite a poet of him. He becomes thoroughly inspired over the beauties of the Yosemite valley and the glories of the granite peaks. The gray granite fashions itself into mansions, palaces, and cathedrals. Imagination ...

... the middle of June when he commences his land journey eastwards which is to bring him to the Yosemite Valley, in the re- cesses of the Sierra Nevada. This valley is intended to be the central feature of the whole tour. It is plainly a paradise on earth ...

... given origin to valleys, he maintains that- But for the existence of faults, joints, and other shrinkage fssures, very few, if any, valleys could have acquired their present form. Those that could be formed without their aid are valleys due solely to the ...

... and that it is worth a journey to California to learn what coaching really is. Words cannot describe the great valley of the Yo-Semite, nor can justice be done to Mormon women, who are extremely ugly and shockingly dressed. In fact, Sir Rose Price never ...

... from the children of Time, its noble yew tree has been respected by the Mighty Master. Whilst the hbiar trees of the Yosemite Valley are considered big indeed if they measure eighteen feet round the trunk, the Crowhurst yew measures nearly twenty-seven ...

... grasp of the resources already at ouy command to extend its scope indefinitely-to make China the tourist's Egypt, the Yosemite valley his Switzer land, and Chili his Norway. To this end steam traffic must be organised on a scale not thought of in days ...

... to be too exacting, as was the case of the Yankee tourist who, when the coach pulled up at Inspiration Point, and the Yosemite Valley lay stretched out below, gave expression to his feeling of disappoint- rnent by passionately exclaiming, Thunder, what ...

... evident desire to find England always in the wrong in her policy. We like best of all these stray leaves that on the Yosemite valley; but there is something to learn from them all for that omnivorous person the general reader. We have not come across ...

... There are fairly good illustrations to assist the verbal descriptions of the natural wonders of Cala- veras and the Yosemite Valley. The astonishing pro- ductiveness of the soil, assisted by the climate of California, is briefly but clearly noted, The ...

... splendours of *the Golden Gate are alike vigorous and true to life. New York, Niagara, 'Frisco, the Pacinc Railway, Utah, the Yosemite Valley-these are all old stories thrice told. Mr. Marshall does not pretend they are new; but, then, he says in his preface ...