Excerpt from Californian Pictures in Prose and Verse It Should be stated that descriptions of some of the most remarkable scenery in California - such as Yosemite, the Big Tree groves, and those regions Of the high Sierra lying in the southern part of the State - are purposely withheld, for the reason that they have been already better described by Prof. D. Whitney, Clarence King, and John Muir, have been illustrated and written about by scores of artists and authors, and have so become in a measure hackneyed. It was, besides, the wish of the present writer to de scribe what was most familiar and recent in his own. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.