Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1865-11-16
The Yosemite ValIey-A Magnf.
ficent Work of Nature.

Correspondence of the New York Tribune.
See Yosemite and die! l shall not attempt
to describe it; the theme is too large and my
capacity too small. Beside, after three
months rapid travel among the grandest
features of the continent, am stated with
sightseeing, have lost the keen edge of rel
ish and run out of adjectives. Yosemite
should be studied for months I have see it
but FIVE days Volumes ought to be and will
be written about it; in two letters I can only
group few hints and impressions.
Notwithstanding grizzly bear-was
the name of tribe of Indians. In 1851
they were hostile; the whites, pursuing them
into their home and stronghold, discovered
this browning wonder of the world. Find
ing in one lodge very aged squaw, they
asked how old she was. The Indians replied
that when she was q girl these mountains
were hills To appreciate the statement one
should see the mountains.
Our party of 1.-THE largest which ever
entered the valley-includes my companions
Of the overland trip, Fred McCrellish, of the
Alta California Frederic Law Olmstead, the
well-known author, architect of Central
park and secretary Of the United States
Sanitary commission. On Monday, after
four days hard travel from San Francisco,
we galloped forward out Of the pine woods,
dismounted, stood upon the rocky precipice
of Inspiration Point, and looked down into
the garden, or rather as he would view the
interior of some stupendous roofess cathe-
dral from the top of one of its towering
walls In the distance were snow-streaked
mountains Right under us was the narrow
winding basin of meadow, grove and shi-
ming river, shut in by granite walls from
1000 to 5000 feet high-walls with immense
turrets of bare rock-walls so upright and
perfect that an expert cragsman can climb
out of the valley only at three or four
points.
Flnging a pebble from the rock upon
which we stood, and looking over the brink
saw it fall more than half mile before
striking. CHANGING diagonally across the
narrow, profound chasm, surveyed an un-
broken, seamless wall of granite two-thirds
of mile high, and more than perpendicular
the top protruding over the base. Turning
toward the upper end of the valley, beheld
half dome of rock one mile high, and on
its summit solitary, gigantic cedar, APP
pearing like a mere twig. Originally vast
granite mountain, it was riyen from top to
bottom by some ancient CONFUSION, which
( Clcll dsuuucf the everlasting Hills anu rent
the great globe itself.
The measureless, inclosing walls, with
these leading towers and many other turrets,
gray, brown, and white rock, darkly veined
from summit to base with streaks and rib
bons of falling water, hills, almost upright,
YET studded with tenacious cedars, ard the
deep-down level floor of grass, with its
thread of river and pigmy trees, all burst
upon me at once. Nature had lifted her
curtain to reveal the vast and infinite. 1t
! elected no adjectives, no EXPLANATIONS. With
bewildering sense of divine power and hui
man littleness, ! could only gaze in silence
! till the view strained my brain and panied
my eyes, compelling me to turn away and
rest frsn its oppressive magnitude