CALIFORNIA AFTER THE DISCOVERY OF GOLD. 315 



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." 



