CHAPTER XI. 
HOW THE SURVEYORS FARED ON THE 35TH PARALLEL. 
Alone in San Francisco.—Arrivals.—The Surveyors on the 35th parallel.—El 
oro.—Spanish Inscriptions.—Dr. Parry at Zuii—Sierra Madre.— 
Colorado Chiquito.—Mount Agassiz and the San Francisco Peaks. —CGeneral 
Week after week passed slowly away at San Francisco; I was 
quite an invalid, and thereby learned to appreciate perhaps 
more thoroughly than I otherwise should have done, the 
advantages of some of the institutions of America; and that 
too without any expense, for I was very short of money at the 
time, having carried as little as possible with me through 
Mexico. I became member of a first-rate library, where, 
amongst other luxuries, the English journals and daily papers 
regularly arrived. Every morning I searched the provincial 
news of the south to get a glimpse at the progress of our 
surveyors. But with the exception of finding that three of 
my friends, General Palmer, Major Calhoun, and Dr. Parry, 
had reached Fort Mojave on the Rio Colorado, and that the 
centre of California was impassable on account of the floods, 
not the slightest clue could I discover as to their whereabouts. 
Tt rained for three weeks day and night incessantly; it was 
too sultry for warm clothes, too damp for cool ones; yet I 
- must confess that San Francisco, even when seen to the 
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