The Natural Wealth of California: Comprising Duly History, Geography, Topography, and Scenery; Climate; Agriculture and Commercial Products; Geology, Zoology, and Botany; Mineralogy, Mines, and Mining Processes; Manufactures; Steamship Lines, Railroads, and Commerce; Immigration,a Detailed Description of Each CountyH. H. Hancroft & Company, 1868 - 696 strani |
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... buildings , every night . Both sexes were severely punished with the whip , if they did not obey the missionaries or other white men in authority . The Fathers themselves wore but one garment , which reached from their neck to their ...
... buildings , every night . Both sexes were severely punished with the whip , if they did not obey the missionaries or other white men in authority . The Fathers themselves wore but one garment , which reached from their neck to their ...
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... build up an ideal world around him . It being impos- sible to find such a spot in Europe , with its false civilization , in which hypocrisy and pretence are the ruling elements of success , he wends his way to America , to find an ...
... build up an ideal world around him . It being impos- sible to find such a spot in Europe , with its false civilization , in which hypocrisy and pretence are the ruling elements of success , he wends his way to America , to find an ...
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... most extensive mines of gold and silver then known , with no scarcity of materials or labor for ship - building , or any other purpose ; yet they never established a vigorous commerce . Controlling the important trade EARLY HISTORY . 59.
... most extensive mines of gold and silver then known , with no scarcity of materials or labor for ship - building , or any other purpose ; yet they never established a vigorous commerce . Controlling the important trade EARLY HISTORY . 59.
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... building stone . Most of the rock used in construct- ing the fortifications on Alcatraz , and at Fort Point , was obtained at these quarries ; the stone used in the erection of the Bank of Cali- fornia , one of the handsomest structures ...
... building stone . Most of the rock used in construct- ing the fortifications on Alcatraz , and at Fort Point , was obtained at these quarries ; the stone used in the erection of the Bank of Cali- fornia , one of the handsomest structures ...
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... building purposes at San Francisco , was obtained , before the discovery of the quarries at Folsom . One of the most pleasant trips for a summer day is across Mon- terey bay , from Santa Cruz to the old town of Monterey . The two places ...
... building purposes at San Francisco , was obtained , before the discovery of the quarries at Folsom . One of the most pleasant trips for a summer day is across Mon- terey bay , from Santa Cruz to the old town of Monterey . The two places ...
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abundant acres agricultural auriferous average bushels California cañon cattle chiefly climate Coast Range contains county seat creek cretaceous crops cultivation deposits Diablo range district dollars east eastern eight erected extensive Feather river feet high fifty five forty four fruit gold grain grass Grass Valley growing hills hundred feet important inches Indians inhabitants lake land large number latter located lodes manufacture Mexican mills mineral mining Monte Diablo Monterey mountains nearly northern Pacific pine placer mining planted population portion pounds quantities quartz railroad rain rich river rocks Sacramento Sacramento river San Diego San Francisco San Joaquin river San José Santa Cruz season shipped Sierra Nevada sluice soil southern species springs square miles streams summer supply thousand feet timber tons town trees Tuolumne county twenty valley vegetables veins vessels vicinity vines winter yield
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Stran 13 - Colorado, at a point where it intersects the thirty-fifth degree of north latitude ; thence down the middle of the channel of said river to the boundary line between the United States and Mexico, as established by the treaty of May thirtieth, one thousand eight hundred and forty-eight...
Stran 13 - English miles; thence running in a north-westerly direction, and following the direction of the Pacific coast to the forty-second degree of north latitude; thence on the line of said forty-second degree of north latitude to the place of beginning.
Stran 2 - Know that on the right hand of the Indies there is an island called California, very close to the side of the Terrestrial Paradise; and it was peopled by black, women, without any man among them, for they lived in the fashion of Amazons.
Stran 70 - The object of the United States has reference to ultimate peace with Mexico; and if at that peace the basis of the uti possiditis shall be established, the government expects, through your forces, to be found in actual possession of Upper California.
Stran 51 - Thus circumstanced, we find ourselves threatened by hordes of Yankee emigrants, who have already begun to flock into our country, and whose progress we cannot arrest.
Stran 44 - REVEREND FATHER : I understand, through the medium of one of your Christian Indians, that you are anxious to know who we are, as some of the Indians have been at the mission and informed you that there were certain white people in the country. We are Americans, on our journey to the river Columbia ; we were in at the mission San Gabriel in January latt.
Stran 2 - Know that, on the right hand of the Indies, there is an island called California, very near to the Terrestrial Paradise, which was peopled with black women, without any men among them, because they were accustomed to live after the fashion of Amazons. They were of strong and hardened bodies, of ardent courage, and of great force. The island was the strongest in the world, from its steep rocks and great cliffs. Their arms were all of gold; and so were the caparisons of the wild beasts which they rode,...
Stran 29 - the Peruvians were a Chinese colony, and that the Spaniards found at the entry of the Pacific Ocean, on coming through the straits of Magellan, the wrecks of Chinese vessels." There are proofs clear and certain, that Mango Capac, the founder of the Peruvian nation, was the son of Kublai Kahn, the commander of this expedition, and that the ancestors of Montezuma, of Mexico, who were from Assam, arrived about the same time. But for the fanaticism of the Spanish priests, who destroyed all the Mexican...
Stran 40 - ... choosing our own federal and local rulers. We shall have a stable government and just laws. California will grow strong and flourish, and her people will be prosperous, happy, and free. Look not, therefore, with jealousy upon the hardy pioneers who scale our mountains and cultivate our unoccupied plains, but rather welcome them as brothers who come to share with us a common destiny.
Stran 66 - the American continents, by the free and independent condition which they have assumed and maintained, are henceforth not to be considered subjects for future colonization by any European powers.