Mr. B. intends, in a day or two, to take his children to their grandmother, who resides somewhere near Marysville, I believe. This is an awful place for children, and nervous mothers would "die daily" if they could see little Mary running fearlessly to the very edge of, and looking down into, these holes (many of them sixty feet in depth), which have been excavated in the hope of finding gold, and of course left open.
Letter the Sixth
[The Pioneer, July, 1854]
USE of PROFANITY—UNCERTAINTY of MINING
SYNOPSIS
