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.
f)rgotten. On the opposite side of the valley are
tie "Three Sisters," most graceful in beauty, a. i
chiseled by human hands.
We are now in the ceutre of the valley going east *
On our left are Yosemite Falls, divided into three
falls-the first, sixteen hundred and fifty feet perpendicular; the second four hundred and fifty, aI)d
the third six hundred and forty feet. Yo Sem-i-te is
thel Indian name now given to the valley, and means
Grizzly Bear.
Opposite these falls is "Sentinel Rock," three thousand two hundred and seventy five feet high. At
the base of this wonderful rock, is " Heeching's Hotel," where all who visit here must stay, and where
All will be made comfortable and happy with such a
host and hostess in such a place. Here you hear,
day and night, the roar of the greatest waterfall in
the world, as to distance. We get up at night to admire and never get weary contemplating its mnagnificence. I was told that in winter the spray freezes
and piles up till there is a hollow pillar hundreds
of feet high, which, when the spring floods come,
struggles with giant power fo;r a time, but soon loses
its stronghold, the ice mountains give way, and falls
into fragments, when the cataract begins again its
thundering song for another year. This foaming
river, pouring down the first falls nine times higher
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