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NEW YORK AND SAN FRANCISCO:

ROMAN AND COMPANY, PUBLISHERS.

1871.

SCENES IN CALIFORNIA.

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of the public, by erecting baricade~, platforms, &c.; and placilarge number oflamps at favorable points, for the better illu •tion and inspection of the different chambers.The discovery being made in the spring, considerable wat&standing in SOfieof the deepest of the cavities; but signsalready visible of its recession, at the rate of nearly six inchesday; and in a few weeks it entirely disappeared, leaving theperfectly dry. This affordedopportunities for further exploratiowhen it was found that a more convenient entrance couldbe mawith bnt little labor, from an unimportant room within a few

of the road. This was accordingly done, and this, in itdditito its convenience, allows of the free circnlation ofpure air.

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ing thus given an historical sketch of the discovery, with

matters connected with its preservation and management, wesnow endeavor to take the reader with us, at least in imaginatiQwhile describing it and

SOME SCENES BY THE WAY.

As a majority of visitors will, illOStprobably, be from San Fcisco,it may not be amiss, with the reader's permission, topra brief outline of some of the most interesting sights to be ,nesscd, from the deck of the steamboat, on our way up the Sacmento. A large pOl·tionof the route, from that great mercanmetropolis of the Pacific to the mouth of the San Joaquin, 11been already illustrated and described in the first chapter of work, to which we would again refer his attention.On page twenty-nine, we have described the course ofthe Stoton boat as to the right; while that bound for Sacramento Cisails straight forward, toward the west end of a large, low tflat,lying between the San Joaquin and Sacramento, named Shman's Island, and here we enter the Sacramento river. The

tezuma hills, seen on onr right, and a few stunted treea on the

are the only objects in the landscape torelieve the eye, by contI'with the low tule swamp, until we approach the new and flom'i'ing little settlement of Rio Vista. "This town," writes Dr. C.Kirkpatrick, the obliging postmaster, "is situated about forty-fi