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SAIL FOR SAN FRANCISCO—A FLEET—MUD—PROSPERITY—SHIPS AND STOREHOUSES— 
BUOYANT SEAS—SHOALS IN BUSINESS—REVULSION AND FIRE—THEIR CONSEQUENCES— 
SAIL FOR SANTA BARBARA—THE TOWN—DEXTEROUS FEAT BY A GRIZZLY BEAR—FASH¬ 
IONS—SAIL FOR ST. LUCAS—PORPOISES AND SEA FOWLS, THEIR SPORTS—APPROACH THE 
TOWN—PECULIAR SKY—CAVERNS IN THE SEA—CACTUS—BEAUTIFUL SEA SHELLS—SAIL 
FOR ACAPULCO—MAGNIFICENT SCENERY—VOLCANOS AND CASCADES—VOLCANOS AT 
NIGHT—ETERNAL SNOW. 
Ok the 22d November we procured tickets on the steamboat 
u Senator,” at $30 each, and at 8 a.m., were under way for San 
Francisco. We passed along down at North River speed, arriv¬ 
ing at 5 p.m. As we passed through the bay, we were struck 
with the vast amount of shipping, numbering no less than five 
hundred sail—a fleet which, in tonnage and number of sail, 
was never before equalled. (See Plate.) The city had also made 
gigantic strides. The sand-hills had been leveled, and the city 
had, as it were, in a day, taken the whole of the surround¬ 
ing country under its wings. Here, however, as in Sacramento 
City, the streets were most bountifully supplied with mud, re¬ 
quiring, in some cases, most dexterous movements to keep above 
ground. 
Nothing had occurred, up to this time, to check the tide of 
prosperity, which had borne the citizens on, to the very acme 
of their ambition. Every one in trade had realized fortunes, 
and were still bountifully supplied with goods, some having 
large invoices piled outside for want of room within. Still all 
were ambitious to add to their stock, and were hiring money at ten 
per cent, a month to invest in provisions, boots, and winter cloth¬ 
ing, all of which were commanding exorbitant prices. Chilian 
flour, in two hundred pound sacks, was purchased by the quan¬ 
tity at $40 per sack, in anticipation of a scarcity ; other provis¬ 
ions at prices predicated upon the above. Rents were extrava- 
