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and Trinity, each 12, and Klamath 11. Only eleven white 
females in Klamath county to eighty-sine white males! If 
we exclude the children, and count only the adults, the dispro- 
portion between the sexes, in all these counties, is still greater. 
EARTHQUAKES. 
In the chapter on Climate, I have given a list of some of the 
most notable earthquakes which have been felt in California 
since the establishment of the missions. The following, how- 
ever, were omitted inadvertently. 
On the 11th Oct., 1800, six severe shocks were felt at San 
Juan Bautista, and every house was shattered and rendered un- 
inhabitable. The same earthquake was felt with much severity 
at San José. 
On the 21st June, 1808, twenty-one shocks were felt at San 
Francisco, and the few houses then existing were seriously 
injured, 
OREGON. 
OreEcon, a State of the American Union, the twentieth ad- 
mitted under the federal constitution, bordering on the Pacific 
Ocean, between latitude 42° and 46° north, and longitude 116° 
40’ and 124° 25’ west. Its northern boundary is the Columbia 
River, separating it from Washington Territory, for a distance 
of about three hundred miles from its mouth to its intersection 
with latitude 46° north, which it follows eastward about 
veventy miles to the Snake River or Lewis fork of the Colum- 
bia, and that stream is the boundary to the mouth of the 
Owyhee River; the line continues thence due south to lat- 
itude 42°, and thence due west to the ocean. Oregon is about 
three hundred and twenty miles long from east to west, and 
two hundred and eighty miles wide from north to south. Its 
area is about eighty thousand square miles. It contains nine- 
