In the summer of the same year Colonel Frémont discovered the mines on his ranch, in the valley of the Mariposa.

Says Three Finger, relating the history of the Mariposa, "I took it off'n Tom Beatty, cheap, after his brother Bill was shot.

»Silfos invisibles, dejad el cáliz de los entreabiertos lirios, y venid en vuestros carros de nácar al que vuelan uncidas las mariposas.

[Footnote 1: See p. 47, note 1.] »Escarabajos de esmeralda, luciérnagas de fuego, mariposas negras, venid!

Y lás mariposas blancas y las libélulas azules, que giran por el aire en extraños círculos, se paraban un momento en nuestros dentellados bordes á contarse los secretos de ese misterioso amor que dura un instante y les consume la vida.

Y huyeron las mariposas blancas y las libélulas azules, dejando su lugar á los insectos obscuros que venían á roer nuestras fibras y á depositar en nuestro seno sus asquerosas larvas.

But it's the Mariposa Big Trees, in the Yosemite, I mean.

But the colours were harmonious; and on a low table stood a blue dragon vase, holding in its mouth a single mariposa lily, such as Angela had never seen before.

That's where I'll risk it all: in the Mariposa Forest, the place I like better than any other in the world.

But loveliest and strangest of all things were the gardens chosen for their own by the mariposa lilies.

Just so, the Grizzly Giant is the king tree of the Mariposa Forest.

But what Stonehenge is to England, the Giralda to Spain, and the Alps to Switzerland, that, I think, is the Mariposa Forest of giant Sequoias to California.

To-day she had arrived at Wawona in the afternoon, and learning that Mr. Nickson Hilliard had gone to the Mariposa Grove, she asked for a carriage to take her there too.

" When she called to Hilliard in the Mariposa Grove, and his answering call told her where to look, Carmen was even more anxious to see what Mrs. May was like than to meet Nick himself, though it seemed years since the night when she bade him good-bye, full of hope, believing he would come back to her.

If only his angel would accept, he might be able to "cross the dead line" by and by, in his own country, and that would be the next best after the Mariposa Forest.

There was a spice of danger in being alone with Nick, danger that he might take up the thread dropped in the Mariposa Forestif, indeed, he really cared to take it up.

La madre de Federico le había dicho que algunos gusanos se volvían mariposas.

Generally, the best work in imaginative literature is done before forty; but Dr. Holmes should seem not to have found out what a Mariposa grant Nature had made him till after fifty.

In Nevada, the ore deposits of Pioche, Tempiute, Tybo, Eureka, White Pine, and Cherry Creek, on the east side of the State, with those of Austin, Belmont, and a series too great for enumeration in the central and western portions. (j.) In California, the Bodie, Mariposa, Grass Valley, and other mines.

La Mariposa que volo sobre el mar.

MARIPOSA, pseud.

SEE Hayes, Mariposa.

That very day the Mariposa Company had brought the first carriage into the valley, which, in due time, was sent to my relief.

They gave us some hides taken from some of the cattle they had recently slain, and from these we constructed a boat and ferry rope in which we crossed the river, and then continued our journey to the mining camp on Aqua Frio, in Mariposa county.

We followed up the river bottom and saw not a single house until we reached the road leading from Stockton to the Mariposa mines, where we found a ferry and a small store.