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and considerably higher above the level of Sonoma Creek, there is to be 

 found another pond having a temperature of 86°. The spring which 

 feeds it is not more than 20 yards from the others, yet there is a differ- 

 ence of 12° in the temperature. This pond has been devoted to the 

 raising of gold-fish. They grow remarkably large here, and become very 

 fat. 



A bath-house is near this pond, receiving its water from it. For a 

 number of years it has been resorted to by invalids and dyspeptics, who, 

 perhaps, not receiving that rejuvenation promised pilgrims by old Ponce 

 de Leon from his wonderful fountain of youth in Florida, have yet been 

 much benefited, and received decided aid from the warm spring of 

 " Palpuli Eancho." 



For a number of years this Eancho has been used as a dairy farm ; 

 from 1853 to 1875 it was controlled by Mr. Poppe himself, and since 

 that time it has been leased to a colony of Swiss dairymen. The soil, 

 however, is admirably adapted for viticulture, as the large vineyard 

 set out some eight or ten years ago will show. 



With this statement of the location and general characteristics of the 

 farm where the carp were placed upon their arrival, I turn now to a 

 brief resume of the incidents of Mr. Poppe's voyage to Europe. 



Mr. Poppe left Sonoma on the 3d day of May, 1872, and San Fran- 

 cisco on the 5th for IJfew York, going by way of the isthmus of Pan- 

 ama. At New York he embarked on one of the German Lloyd steamers 

 for Bremen, arriving there in the usual time without any noticeable 

 occurrence. A few days were spent in visiting, after a lapse of thirty- 

 thi'ee years, the scenes of his boyhood, and in finding some trace of 

 his former friends and relatives. After spending a week or so in this 

 manner, Mr. Poppe set out on the important business of his journey, 

 namely, the procuring of. specimens of the carp. 



Until recently it had not been definitely known where Mr. Poppe pro- 

 cured his fish in Germany, he never having given the exact locality 

 during his lifetime. Several days after his death, however, a journal 

 published in Stettin was received by his family which contains the de- 

 sired information. The writer of the article was a companion of Mr. 

 Poppe during a part of the journey to the locality. I extract the fol- 

 lowing from the journal Deutsche Fischerei-Zeitung, December 16, 1879, 

 page 412 : " The young carp which Mr. Poppe, of Sonoma, Cal., took 

 with him to America in 1872 were taken from the ponds of a certain 

 miller of Eeinfeld, Holstein, who followed the business of carp culture. 

 This city is on the line of the Hamburg-Lubec Eailroad. The writer of 

 these lines accompanied Mr. Poppe at that time to Eeinfeld." 



Here Mr. Popjpe procured 83 carp of various ages and sizes. Three 

 were very large, two feet or more in length ; the others all the way from 

 that size to the length of an ordinary steel pen. The large ones, of course, 

 owing to the imperfect accommodations, were the first to die, while only 

 the very smallest endured the long voyage. The were placed on a steamer 



