Off for Sacramento.--Fellow-passengers.--Children.--Sacramento River.--Sacramento City.--Thence by Railroad.--Country generally.--The Wheat Fields and Live Oaks.--The Foot-hills.--Placer Mining.--Water-ditches.--Hydraulic Mining.--Changes in Climate.--Central Pacific Railroad.--Cisco.--The Sierra Nevadas.--Deep Snows still, May 17th.--Snow-sheds.--John Chinaman again.--Donner Lake.--The Truckee.--The Geiger Grade.--Sunday in Nevada.--A Noted Revivalist.--Virginia City.--The Comstock Lode.--Silver Mining generally.--The Sutro Tunnel.--Mining a Risky Business. 425-436 CHAPTER XXVIII. _Virginia City to Stockton._ Return by Placerville.--Carson City.--Carson River and Valley.--The Sierras again.--Mountain Turnpikes.--A Rough Night's Travel.--Crossing the Summit.--An Ambitious Mother and her Florence Mary.--A Morning Ride.--Lake Tahoe.--Splendid Stage-driving.--Placerville.--Sacramento City again.--California's Wealth of Roses, etc.--Country to Stockton.--Live Oaks.--Wheat-fields.--Vineyards.--Flocks and Herds.--Wind-mills.--Stockton itself. 437-442 CHAPTER XXIX. _Stockton to the Yosemite._ Off for the Yo-sem-i-te.--Wheat-fields again.--The Stanislaus and Tuolomne.--The Coast Range.--Coulterville.--A Horseback Ride.--Mustang Pony.--My Guide.--Bower Cave.--"Black's."--A Romantic Trail.--Up and Over the Sierras.--Floundering through the Snows.--First View of the Yosemite.--Fording Mountain Torrents.--Descent into the Valley.--"Hutchings'."--A Ramble through the Yosemite.--A Fissure in the Sierras.--Its Lofty Walls.--Snowbanks above; Strawberries below.--Waterfalls.--Bridal Veil Fall.--El Capitan.--Yosemite Fall.--Merced River.--The Lake and Domes.--South Fork.--Prof. Whitney and Party.--The Cascades.--Vernal Fall.--Rainbows.--Nevada Fall.--Mt. Broderick.--Sentinel Peak.--Cathedral Rocks.--The Valley generally. 443-455 CHAPTER XXX. _The Yosemite to San Francisco._ Prof. Whitney again.--The Mariposa Trail.--Inspiration Point.--A Sublime View.--The Hermitage.--The Snow again.--A Grizzly Bear and Cubs.--The Sugar Pines.--The South Merced.--"Clerk's."--Galen Clark himself.--Mariposa Big Trees.--Grizzly Giant, etc.--The Species generally.--California's Duty.--Mariposa.--A Sleepy Town.--Honitos.--Bear Valley.--The Coast Range and Mt. Diabolo.--Stockton again.--Back to San Francisco. 456-465 CHAPTER XXXI. _San Francisco to New York._