YOBUBA, or YARRIBA, a country of Guinea, w. Africa, lying to the e. and n.e. of Dahomey, in n. lat. 6° to 9°, and e. long. 2° to 6°. Its area is about 70,000 sq.m. ;' and the pop. is estimated at 2,500,000. Palm-oil, cotton, and ivory are the principal articles of export. Lagos (q.v.) is the port through which trade with foreign countries is chiefly carried on. There are numerous large towns in Yoruba, but the people are little if at all less barbarous in their customs than their neighbors of Dahomey.
or AnwAuxi, a valley and water-fall of California, in the e. of the state, about 57 m. from Coulterville, on a large feeder of the San Joaquin, and on the western side of the Sierra Nevada. The scenery of California is remarkable for its combination of loveliness with sublimity; and in no part of the country yet explored are these characters so strikingly displayed as in the Yosemite valley—a valley of from 8 to 10 m. long, and a little more than a mile wide; in some places filled with noble oaks, in others opening out into broad, grassy fields; with a river rushing through it about 4-0 yards in breadth; pine-covered mountains towering with very steep slopes to the height of 3,500 ft.; a precipice or " bluff " in one place rising perpendicularly 3,089 ft. above
the valley; in another, a rock almost perpendicular, 3,270 ft. high; water-falls pouring over its sides from heights of 700 to almost 1000 ft.; and one great water-fall, broken into three leaps, but of which the whole height is 2,550 feet. Of the other water-falls on the sides of the valley, the Pohono, or Bridal Veil water-fall, is particularly to be remarked for its beauty as well as for its height, which is 940 ft., and almost unbroken. The Yosemite valley, first entered by white men in 1855, has begun to attract visitors since California has become peopled, and has already its hotels and guides, like the valleys of Switzerland and the falls of Niagara. See NATIONAL Paulo.