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Whitney, J, D. Letter of Professor Whitney, State Geologist 

 of California. In the Mariposa Estate, London, 1861, 

 pp. 5-7. 



Woods, Daniel B. Sixteen months at the gold diggings. New 

 York, 1851. 199 pp. 



The appendix contains a letter from Prof. Edward Hitchcock on 

 the gold mines of California. 



Weight, G. F. The Ice Age in North America, and its bear- 

 ings upon the antiquity of man, by G. Frederick 

 Wright; with an appendix on the probable cause of 

 glaciation, by Warren Upham. New York, 1889. 622 

 pp. maps and many illustrations. 



The author notices the existing glaciers of California, ancient 

 glaciers, the terminal moraines of California, the pre-historic man in 

 California, ancient river-beds, etc. 



Wyld, J. Guide to California. London, 1849. 



Notes on the distribution of gold throughout the world, 



including Australia, California, and Russia. London, 

 2d edition, 1851; 3d edition, 1853. 



Geographical and mineralogical notes to accompany 



Wyld's map of the gold regions. London, 1849. 



Yale, Gregory. Legal titles to mining claims and water rights 

 in California. San Francisco, 1867. 452 pp. 



This report gives the history of early mining legislation in the 

 United States, and especially that of California. 



