 | 1851 - 496 strani
...City, we subjoin Mr. Bernard Taylor's interesting description of life in the capital of California. A better idea of San Francisco in the beginning of...be given than by the description of a single day. By nine o'clock the town is in the full flow of business. The streets running down to the water, and... | |
 | Bayard Taylor - 1862 - 488 strani
...$8 a dozen, and as a consequence, large quantities of soiled linen were sent to the antipodes to bo purified. A vessel just in from Canton brought two...daylight by the noises of building, with which the hills arc all alive. The air is temperate, and the invariable morning fog is just beginning to gather. By... | |
 | Owen Cochran Coy - 1919 - 410 strani
...places. Vacant lots of one day would be covered the next day by half a dozen tents and canvas houses. "A better idea of San Francisco, in the beginning of September, 1849," Sa7s Bayard Taylor, "cannot be given than by the description of a single day. Supposing the visitor... | |
 | Owen Cochran Coy - 1919 - 410 strani
...places. Vacant lots of one day would be covered the next day by half a dozen tents and canvas houses. "A better idea of San Francisco, in the beginning of September, 1849," says Bayard Taylor, "cannot be given than by the description of a single day. Supposing the visitor... | |
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cannot be given than by the description of a single day. Supposing the visitor to have been long enough in the place to sleep on a hard plank and in spite of the attacks of innumerable fleas, he will be awakened at daylight by the noises of building,... 