Wbuinotonus.—A roving correspondent of 7he times gives the following description of the Wellingtsnias of Mariposa in the famous Yosemite valley:—Though the valley has disappointed me, I am more than glad to have taken our forest ride and visited the big trees in the Mariposa district. They are monstrous. The forest grew upon us. My companion said to roe, “ I seem never to have seen trees before,” and yet those through which we rode were of no uncommon size for these parts. As we passed by one 1 said, “ Now, that is not an exceptional tree ; let us measure it.” Bo we got off our horses, and. taking out my tape I found it was, breast high, 18 J feet in circumference. The trunks of many pines, too, run up far as Clean as a mast. The sun striking on these, which are of a light yellowish brown colour, ond on those of the. cedars, which are very large, clean, and reddish, gives marvellous vistas in the forest. Some trees are also loaded with bright green moss, and as the arbor vita reaches a great height—say 60 feet or 60 feet—its dark foliage adds to the play of colour which surrounds the traveller in these immense belts of timber. Large fallen rotting trunks and charred stumps are seen in all directions, and the sentiment of lone liness is increased by the thought that one might ride a thousand miles through the same scenes by following the course of the sierra. Part of the mountain, which we had been descending for hours, and which, covered with huge trees, rose high op from our resting-place, was on fire. We had been aware of much smoke during the day, but our track had not led us near the scene of the conflagration. The sight was infinitely grand. High up, as it were in the sky, were walls, towers, and pinnacles of fire. in some, places it smouldered in long banks _ and lines of glowing red, and then arose in crackling pillars of flame, as some great tree broke into a blaze. Here and there huge ladders of light seemed to reach up t> the fiery firmament from the earth. 