California Notes, Volume 1E. Bosqui, 1876 - 232 páginas Charles Beebe Turrill (1854-1927) was a California historian and promoter. California notes (1876) is a guide for travellers, offering details of the state's weather, geology, and vegetation as well as recommended travel routes, historical notes, business statistics, and sightseeing tips for visitors to San Francisco, Stockton, Calaveras County and its mammoth trees and caves, the gold mining district, and the Yosemite Valley. |
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Annals of San appearance auriferous beautiful belt Big Oak Flat boulders Calaveras California cañon Cave City Central Pacific Railroad cliffs Coast Ranges color Copperopolis County Creek débris deposits digger pine distance ditches earth east El Capitan extends feet high flowers flume foot-hills gold Golden Gate grand granite grow height hill-side hills hundred hydraulic mining inches Indian interesting land lava ledge limestone lode Mammoth Trees Mariposa mass Merced miles miners mountain Murphy's nearly Nevada Fall pine placer mining portion quartz reached region ride ridge river road rock rocky route San Francisco San Joaquin sand scenery Sentinel Sequoia side Sierra Nevada slope sluice sluice-box soil Sonora South Dome South Grove southern stands Stanislaus Stanislaus River steep stream street summit thick tion tourist town trail trunk tunnel Tuolumne Tuolumne County veins vicinity wall width wind Yosemite Valley
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Página 121 - Having nothing to do at home, and being arrived at that happy age when a man can be idle with impunity, he took his place once more on the bench at the inn door, and was reverenced as one of the patriarchs of the village, and a chronicle of the old times
Página 61 - The best actors in the world, either for tragedy, comedy, history, pastoral, pastoral-comical, historical-pastoral, tragical-historical, tragical-comical-historical-pastoral, scene individable, or poem unlimited : Seneca cannot be too heavy, nor Plautus too light.
Página 29 - Thus circumstanced, we find ourselves suddenly threatened by hordes of Yankee emigrants, who have already begun to flock into our country, and whose progress we cannot arrest. Already have the wagons of that perfidious people scaled the almost inaccessible summits of the Sierra Nevada, crossed the entire continent, and penetrated the fruitful valley of the Sacramento. What that astonishing people will next undertake, I cannot say ; but in whatever enterprise they embark they will be sure to prove...
Página 124 - There are seven pillars of Gothic mould, In Chillon's dungeons deep and old ; There are seven columns, massy and grey, Dim with a dull, imprisoned ray, A sunbeam which hath lost its way, And through the crevice and the cleft Of the thick wall is fallen and left, Creeping o'er the floor so damp, Like a marsh's meteor-lamp ; And in each pillar there is a ring, And in each ring there is a chain...
Página 24 - Francisco, is unknown beyond the district ; and has been applied from the local name of the cove, on which the town is built : Therefore, to prevent confusion and mistakes in public documents, and that the town may have the advantage of the name given on the public map, "!T is HEREBY ORDAINED, that the name of SAN FRANCISCO shall hereafter be used in all official communications and public documents, or records appertaining to the town.
Página 145 - Victoria, had on one occasion prepared for photographic uses a solution of chloride of gold, leaving in it a small piece of metallic gold undissolved. Accidentally some extraneous substance, supposed to be a piece of cork, had fallen into the solution, decomposing it, and causing the gold to precipitate, which...
Página 79 - ... shaft was reopened and the water taken out, and hope at a future meeting to be able to lay before the Academy the results of a personal examination of this interesting locality, and of further excavations in the bed from which the skull was taken. Assuming the correctness of Mr. Matson's statements, this relic of human antiquity is easily seen to be an object of the greatest interest to the ethnologist as well as the geologist. The previous investigations of the Geological Survey have clearly...
Página 5 - P. muricata, is another Coast Range species, and P. ponderosa (the yellow pine) and P. Lambertiana (the sugar pine) are found in both Sierra and Coast Ranges. The redwood (Sequoia sempervirens) is also one of the grand characteristic trees of the California Coast Ranges, to which it is exclusively confined ; with it grows frequently the well-known Douglas fir (Abies Douglasii).
Página 7 - ... extent the place of the pitch and sugar pines. This belt extends from 7,000 to 9,000 feet above the sea, in the central part of the State. The traveller to the Yosemite will see it well developed about Westfall's meadows, and from there to the edge of the Valley. These firs, especially the...
Página 79 - ... search in the bed from which the skull was procured. A careful inquiry into all the circumstances of the alleged discovery, and an interview with all the persons who had been in any way connected with it, impressed upon my mind the conviction that the facts were as stated above, and that there was every reason to believe that the skull really came from the position assigned to it by Mr. Matson. Still, as it is evidently highly desirable that as large an amount of evidence as possible should be...