Beyond the West: containing an account of two years' travel in the other half of our great continent far beyond the old West, on the plains, in the Rocky mountains, and picturesque parks of Colorado. Also, characteristic features of New Mexico, Arizona, Wyoming, Montana, Idaho ... Oregon, Utah, Nevada, and ... California, the end of the West ... the great continental railroad, together with the ... most wonderful natural scenery in the world .../ by George W. Pine.

YOSEMITE VALLEY.
Should you look at the trees, two hundred feet high,-,
they look like shrubs.
We have no means by which to measure distance.
to tell one thousand feet from three thousand feet.
We feel a disappointment that things in the valley
appear small when they are of unusual size.
We are now in the western end of the valley going east, the waters of the river meeting us. We
find, as we move up tle valley, ten high summits on
the sides, quite prominent, peculiar and dissimilar.
We also find several large streams dashing down in
different places, and smaller ones, that come down
like satin ribbons. It is July, when the snows are
rapidly melting, the streams falling, and the falls
the grandest of the year.
The first one we come to is "Tall and Slender
Fall," which first creeps, then rushes down the face
of rocks three thousand three hundred feet.
We gaze at the ribbon on the rock, then the
stream we cross, and are surprised at the amount
of water coming down ii) that little stream.
As we go on up the valley we behold a might)
pyramid rising up on our left-the "Great Chief
of the Valley"'-three thousand three hundred feet
high, top-fiat and naked. We stand at its base and
gaze upon it, perpendicular for tw,, thousand feet,
fetling that the great mass is ready to fall upon us
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