ABSTRACT
Valley is, of course, the chief and the most remarkable. But the State is full of wonderful natural phenomena; and when the tourist has seen the Yosemite, the Calaveras Big Tree Grove, the Geysers, Mount Shasta, the Almaden quicksilver mine, the different methods of gold-mining, and Lakes Donner and Tahoe, he has left unseen st.ill Mono Lake, the Dead Sea of California; the Tulare, Kern and Buena Vista I"akes, remarkable and ~ingular sheets of water lying in the San Joaquin Valley; the magnificent scenery about the head-waters of the Kern River, which Bierstadt has gone to paint this summer, and which is said to contain more than one valley as wonderful as the Yosemite itself; the Redwood forests; and other objects, yearly becoming more accessible by good roads; and which will hereafter tempt travelers and sight-seers as much as the Yosemite does now. In fact California has not yet shown to travelers her most remarkable or most picturesque sights.
