xiv CONTENTS. 
General Character of the Country from hence to Los Angeles — Extent of 
the North American Steppes — Region of Annual Grasses and Plants — 
Wild Cerealia — The Original Cause of the Absence of Trees is of a 
Geological Nature — Yallecito — A half-starved Man — San Felipe — 
Rocky Pass — Camphor Scent of the Plants — Warner's Rancho — Hot 
Sulphur Springs — Californian Indians — Large Herds' of Cattle — Grass 
and Clover Seed as natural Fodder for Cattle — Santa Ana — One Meteoro- 
logical Region encroaching upon another — Colonel Williams's Rancho — 
An Expensive Shepherd — We share the Flesh of Thirty Pigs with the 
Vultures — Extensive use of Strychnine — Tertiary Group of Hills — 
Asphalt Springs — Los Angeles — Return to Civilization . . Page 530 
CHAPTER VIII. 
Physical Geography of the North American Continent — Retrospect of its 
Orologic Relations — Southern Termination of the Rocky Mountains on 
the Upper Rio Grande — Their Southern Equivalents — Sierra Madre — 
Frequency of the Name — The Great Sierra Madre of Cinaloa and Sonora 
— Its Northern Equivalent in the Californian Mountain- system — Interior 
Longitudinal Basin of the Western Half of the Continent — Depression of 
the Plateau between the Middle Rio Grande and the Middle Gila . . 550 
CHAPTER IX. 
Los Angeles and the South of California — Situation of the Town and Climate 
— Orchards and Vineyards — Exportation of Fruit and Grapes — Produc- 
tion of Wine — Other Resources of the Country — No Gold Mines in this 
Part of the State — Indians and Mexicans — Criminals and Desperadoes 
from the North withdrawing hither — Murders — Departure for San Fran- 
cisco — Mist on the Coast — Monterey — Aspect of the Country — A 
Whale — Fisheries of Monterey — The Golden Gate and Bay of San Fran- 
cisco — Situation of the Town .. .. .. .. .. 561 
CHAPTER X. 
San Francisco — Elements and Character of Society — The Romance of UtilL 
tarianism — A List of Crime and Bloodshed — Points of Comparison — 
Californian Life distinguished by extraordinary Acuteness of Intellect and 
Energy of Action — Strange Remedies for strange Evils — Satisfactory 
Result of a Social Experiment — Natural Character of the Environs of San 
Francisco — The Climate and its Moral Influence — Excursions in the 
Vicinity — The Redwoods — Scenery of the Coast Range — San Jose — 
Artesian Wells — Quicksilver Mines of New Almaden .. .. 571 
CHAPTER XI. 
Eastward Bound — Filibusters on Board — William Walker — Return to New 
York 586 
