ISBN: 9780217108362

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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www. million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER III. THE BIG TREES AND YO-SEMITE VALLEY. There is a natural tendency to disbelieve the traveller who comes back and reports things which he has seen, that are very unlike our own experience. We think he must have been in a kind of mental fog, in which everything looked large; or he must have Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www. million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER III. THE BIG TREES AND YO-SEMITE VALLEY. There is a natural tendency to disbelieve the traveller who comes back and reports things which he has seen, that are very unlike our own experience. We think he must have been in a kind of mental fog, in which everything looked large; or he must have been credulous and easily imposed upon; or that he comes home wishing to be a hero, and is therefore tempted to exaggerate. It is also an acknowledgment of our own ignorance and want of enlargement, to own that another has seen what we never saw, and can tell us of things which we cannot deny, but which we can doubt. I am about to speak of things, which, ac- BIG TREES. 77 cording to what we have seen and known, cannot be true; and all we can do, in such cases, is to shake the head gravely, look wise, and feel that we know it all. Now, I shall not, probably, state a fact which has not been stated before, and which will not be tested hereafter by many of my readers; and yet I shall not be surprised if what I say shall be doubted. But we have no time for moralizing. Who has not heard of "the Big Trees" of California? In 1830 we heard of trees in that land whose height was nearly three hundred feet. The. se, however, were the common sugar pines of the region; they were not the big trees since discovered, and which no visitor of California should fail to see. Though the name of " I.M. Wooster, 1850," is carved on one of these trees, it was not till 1852 that a hunter, by the name of Dowd, having wounded a bear, which he followed till he came to a group of these huge trees, made them known. Forgetting his bear, he gazed in astonishment, and finally returned to the camp, where men were constructing water-works. His tale was received with shouts of laughter and derision. A few d. Books, History~~General, sunset-land~~John-Todd, , , , , , , , , , General Books LLC<

ISBN: 9780217108362

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not … More...

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1870 edition. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER VII. THE FUTURE OF THE PACIFIC SLOPE, AND THE CHINESE QUESTION. On the Pacific shores are three harbors, conveniently located to meet the wants of commerce -- on the north, Puget Sound; on .tthe south, San Diego; and in the centre, San Francisco Bay. The latter is the queen of harbors, and has a great headway in advance of the others. As you come into the bay, passing the Golden Gate, you are sailing directly east. After passing east a few miles, you turn to the south, around the point of a peninsula. On the end of that peninsula is San Francisco -- a city built on and among the most dreary sand-hills. Originally no spot could be more uninviting. But in twenty years the high hills have been cut down and carted into the water, rocks blasted, sloughs filled up, till now you find a wondrous city, with nearly one hundred and fifty thousand inhabitants, with architecture which would honor any city; with nothing that looks young, green, or unfinished; and kept in order by its police, superior to any other city in the land. Youare amazed at seeing a city looking old, and ripe, and finished, having twelve daily papers, and many of them of mammoth size having six miles of wharfage already built; having huge steamships, that run regularly, not only every day and hour through the harbor, but on the New York line, and on the lines for China, Japan, Sandwich Islands, and Oregon. In this city capital has centred, and has been wisely and generously used to build public institutions, free schools, hos-* pitals, asylums for the blind, for the deaf and dumb, for the orphans, and for all in FUTURE OF SAN FRANCISCO. 265 distress. San Francisco is, by her position, by her energy and wisdom, to be the Elect Lady of the coast, and nothing but... John Todd, Books, History, The Sunset Land; Or, The Great Pacific Slope Books>History, General Books LLC<

ISBN: 9780217108362

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not … More...

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1870 edition. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER VII. THE FUTURE OF THE PACIFIC SLOPE, AND THE CHINESE QUESTION. On the Pacific shores are three harbors, conveniently located to meet the wants of commerce -- on the north, Puget Sound; on .tthe south, San Diego; and in the centre, San Francisco Bay. The latter is the queen of harbors, and has a great headway in advance of the others. As you come into the bay, passing the Golden Gate, you are sailing directly east. After passing east a few miles, you turn to the south, around the point of a peninsula. On the end of that peninsula is San Francisco -- a city built on and among the most dreary sand-hills. Originally no spot could be more uninviting. But in twenty years the high hills have been cut down and carted into the water, rocks blasted, sloughs filled up, till now you find a wondrous city, with nearly one hundred and fifty thousand inhabitants, with architecture which would honor any city; with nothing that looks young, green, or unfinished; and kept in order by its police, superior to any other city in the land. Youare amazed at seeing a city looking old, and ripe, and finished, having twelve daily papers, and many of them of mammoth size having six miles of wharfage already built; having huge steamships, that run regularly, not only every day and hour through the harbor, but on the New York line, and on the lines for China, Japan, Sandwich Islands, and Oregon. In this city capital has centred, and has been wisely and generously used to build public institutions, free schools, hos-* pitals, asylums for the blind, for the deaf and dumb, for the orphans, and for all in FUTURE OF SAN FRANCISCO. 265 distress. San Francisco is, by her position, by her energy and wisdom, to be the Elect Lady of the coast, and nothing but... John Todd, Books, History, The Sunset Land; Or, The Great Pacific Slope Books>History <

ISBN: 9780217108362

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