James D. Hague 



zly bear, and was a particular friend 

 of the ruffled moufflon of North 

 Africa. 



He believed in the great and far- 

 distant future of San Francisco, and 

 the only real property of which he 

 died possessed is a still deeply sub- 

 merged and wholly invisible water-lot 

 on the north beach, which can only 

 become valuable to generations yet 

 unborn. 



One of Mr. Cutter's most notable 

 achievements was the fortuitous in- 

 vention (about 1870) of a literary 

 hoax, which attracted world-wide at- 

 tention, purporting to answer certain 

 inquiries which were just then in cur- 

 rent circulation through the literary 

 journals of the period, touching the 

 authorship of the familiar quotation, 

 " Though lost to sight, to memory 

 dear," the origin of which had then 

 long been, as it still is, a puzzle past 

 finding out, the inquiry having begun 

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