. To California and back; . Sierra Nevada Range, whose majestic beautyis second only to that of the Grand Canon ofthe Colorado. All the world has heard of the Yosemite, ofits cataract that plunges 1,500 feet sheer inone of its three downward leaps, of its thread-like cascade that bends to the wind through900 feet of descent, of its colossal domes,spires and arches of bare granite contrastedwith soft tones of green forest and silver lake ;and of the Big Trees of the Mariposa Grove,where more than three hundred specimens ofthe Sequoia gigantea are scattered over anarea of several thousand acres.

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. To California and back; . Sierra Nevada Range, whose majestic beautyis second only to that of the Grand Canon ofthe Colorado. All the world has heard of the Yosemite, ofits cataract that plunges 1,500 feet sheer inone of its three downward leaps, of its thread-like cascade that bends to the wind through900 feet of descent, of its colossal domes,spires and arches of bare granite contrastedwith soft tones of green forest and silver lake ;and of the Big Trees of the Mariposa Grove,where more than three hundred specimens ofthe Sequoia gigantea are scattered over anarea of several thousand acres. This is theregular approach to those scenes, of which thebarest mention should surely suffice, theirdescription having passed into the literature ofevery language. Beyond Berenda widening meadows slope toa placid inlet of the sea, whose winding shoreleads to Oakland Pier. Here a ferry crossesthe bay to the city of San Francisco. Numberless matters of interest in this region,more or less widely known and certain to bebrough

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