What I saw on the west coast of South and North America, and at the Hawaiian Islands.: By H. Willis Baxley, M.D.

CHAPTER XXX.
MARIPOSA MAMMOTH TREES-TOWN OF MARIPOSA-BEAR YALLEY-ADJACENT QUARTZ
GOLD MNINNG-MERCED RIVER, ITS GOLD DEPOSITS-SAN JOAQUIN AND SACRAMENTO
RIVERS AND THEIR TRIBUTARIES DRAIN THE AURIFEROUS REGION-GREAT IN TERIOR BASIN OF CALIFORKIA.
TAKING leave of our dusky neighbors, who did not seek, yet
accepted with becoming spirit our surplus provisions, slowly
and sadly we passed down the valley-for here are the oracles
of a higher wisdom than man's-and at early dawn sought the
-Iariposa trail, by which we proposed to return circuitously to
CouLlterville, visiting the most remarkable of the groves of California Big Trees on the route. At the perpendicular height of
fifteen hundred feet in ascending the steep acclivity, a fine view
was afforded of the tout ensemble of Yo-Semite, and among
these the South Dome, some distance behind E1 Sentinel, appropriately so called because of its relative position to the others,
and not visible at all from within the main valley. About four
miles up the trail, which skirts for a short distance the vast
calion, the last and perhaps the most comprehlensive view was
obtained of this " temple not made with hands " —whose transcendent architecture of everlasting walls and columns, spires
and minarets, towers and domes,
"Came of the fiat that gave instant birth
To the fair sun and his attendant earth "
and among whose imperishable arches swell the mingling, symphonies of joyous floods, a ceaseless anthem at the shrine of
Him who' hath made Hlis wonderful works to be remembered."