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Beechey, CxVPT. F. W. Narrative of a voyage, etc. 



compact basalt, containing particles of magnetic iron ore, which 

 encouraged the delusive hope of rich mines. A few miles down the 

 river Paxaros, from where the road to San Juan crosses it, there 

 are thermal springs, and sulphur in their neighbourhood. On the 

 Santa Cruz side, near the Mission, there is said to be coal, but it 

 has never been mined. Along the east shore of the Bay of San 

 Francisco, for thirty-five miles east-southeast, from beyond the 

 Island of Molate, towards San Josef and Santa Clara, the harbour 

 is bounded generally by low alluvial soil, and only in a few^ places 

 do low and rocky cliffs protrude. Near the Mission of San Josef 

 there are some hot springs in the plain, surrounded by a verdant 

 covering. Earthquakes are rather common, and one in 1806 so 

 shook the building of the Mission of Santa Clara, that a new one 

 was obliged to the erected. A few years ago, a boat belonging to 

 a whale ship, when lying in several feet water, was suddenly 

 thrown on the beach and left dry, and a vessel in the Bay of Mon- 

 terey was suddenly and severely tossed about by the sea, and the 

 shock was felt on the shore at the same time. At ten o'clock on 

 the 26th December, 1827, a slight shock was felt at San Josef. 

 The shocks are said to come along the coast from the northward, 

 and when they are also felt at Monterey it is some minutes later. 



"One was perceived at the Presidio of San Francisco in the 

 month of April, 1827. It continued a short time, but the shaking 

 was so slight that it injured nothing. — C." 



Bell, William A. New tracks in North America. London, 

 1870. 564 pp. 



Gives history of mining under the Spaniards, mines along the 

 Colorado, etc. pp. 426 et seq. 



'Berry, George. The gold of California. London, 1849. 



'Blake, W. P. Remarks upon the geology of California. 

 Washington, 1855. tract. 



— Sur Taction des anciens glaciers dans la Sierra Nevada 

 de Calif ornie, et sur I'origine de la Vallee de Yo-Semite. 

 Paris, 1867. tract. 4to. 



— Report of a geological reconnoissance in California 

 made in connection with the Expedition to survey routes 

 to California for a railroad from the Mississippi River 

 to the Pacific Ocean in 1853. New York, 1858. 392 pp. 

 illustrated. 



The production of precious metals. New York, 1869. 



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