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sufficient in itself to show the lightness of their character; f 
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attention of the people would much more often be directed to 
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ss volcanoes, ready to burst forth at any moment, spreading devas- , 
. tation over the land, is a very needless source of alarm. — : 
es e should remember that when speaking of California as a ‘ 
S state, that we include a line of territory equalling that of the 2 
: seabo ing between Cape Hatteras on the south and the 
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north and northwest, beyond the fifty-fifth parallel, both voleame 
and earthquake phenomena appear to have been more violent 
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neighborhood of the Aleutian Archipelago, along the northeast 
coast of Japan, and in the British and Russian Possessions of 
North America on the Pacific, and islands of the Ochotsk Sea. 
_ It would be interesting to know more about these phenomen@ 
in those regions, and such information could be easily obtained is. 
from the commanders of the whaling fleet, if the proper meas 
