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vest ; the rain-cloud may not visit her in the summer months, 

 but the mountain-stream will he induced to throw its showers 

 over her thirsty plains. 



" Such was California a few years since such is she now, 

 and such will she become even before they who now rush to 

 her shores, find their footsteps within the shadows of the 

 pale realm." 



