CALIFORNIA ILLUSTRATED: INCLUDING A DESCRIPTION OF THE PANAMA AND NICARAGUA ROUTES. BY J. M. LETTS. With Forty-Eight Illustrations. FOURTH THOUSAND.. UNIVERSITY NEW YORK: R. T. YOUNG, 140 FULTON-STREET. 1853. Date to the Reader. I HAVE, in these pages, endeavored to convey a correct impression, I have stated such facts only as I knew to be facts, and interspersed them with incidents that fell under my own observation. A season's residence in the mineral regions enabled me to obtain a correct interior view of life in California. The illustrations are truthful, and can be relied upon as faithfully portraying the scenes they are designed to represent. They were drawn upon the spot, and in order to preserve characteristics, even the attitudes of the individuals represented are truthfully given. The first part of this volume is written in a concise manner, with a view to brevity, as the reader is presumed to be anxious to make the shortest possible passage to the Eldorada. THE AUTHOR. 869809 |