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  • PREFACE.
  • TABLE OF CONTENTS.
  • CALIFORNIA NOTESCHAPTER I.INTRODUCTION
  • CHAPTER II.SAN FRANCISCO--PAST AND PRESENT.
  • CHAPTER III.DAYS AROUND SAN FRANCISCO.
  • CHAPTER IVINTO THE HEART OF THE FOOT-HILLS."I put aside the forms of men,And shun the world's consuming care;Come green and honest hills again!For ye are free and fair."
  • CHAPTER V.CALAVERAS COUNTY."All hail to the grand old mountains,With their green and glittering dress,Fit type for a youthful country,In its pride and loneliness."
  • CHAPTER VI.CALAVERAS MAMMOTH TREES."Here aged trees cathedral walks compose,And mount the hill in venerable rows."
  • CHAPTER VII.SOUTH GROVE."Here centuries have chronicled their years,Yet left these grand old forms, still hale and strong,And rich in waving boughs and emerald leaves."
  • CHAPTER VIII.MAMMOTH CAVE OF CALAVERAS.
  • CHAPTER IX.GOLD MINES"Gold is the strength, the sinews of the world;The health, the soul, the beauty most divine;A mask of gold hides all deformities. .
  • CHAPTER X.GOLD MINING.
  • CHAPTER XI.TO THE YOSEMITE.
  • CHAPTER XII.THE YOSEMITE VALLEY.
  • APPENDIXVarious Routes to the Yosemite Valley, Distances,Time Schedules, and Points of Interest

    • California notes. By Charles B. Turrill

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    FIRST VOLUME.

    CALIFORNIA NOTES.

    BY

    CHARLES. B. TURRILL.
    "O California, prodigal of gold,
    Rich in the treasures of a wealth untold,
    Not in thy bosom's secret store alone
    is all the wonder of thy greatness shown.
    Within thy confines, happily combined,
    The wealth of nature and the might of mind,
    A wisdom eminent, a virtue sage,
    Give loftier spirit to a sordid age."

    SAN FRANCISCO:

    EDWARD BOSQUI & CO., PRINTERS, COR. CLAY & LEIDESDORFF STS.

    1876.




    This text is based on the following book(s):
    rc 01-893. Selected from the collections of the Library of Congress. 70289.

    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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