CALIFORNIA ILLUSTRATED:

INCLUDING
A DESCRIPTION
OF THE
PANAMA AND NICARAGUA ROUTES.
BY
A RETURNED CALIFORNIAN.
New York:
WILLIAM HOLDREDGE, PUBLISHER,
NO. 140 FULTON STREET.
1852.
Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1852,
BY J. M. LETTS,
In the Clerk’s Office of the District Court for the Southern District of New York.
E. O. JENKINS, PRINTER AND STEREOTYPER,
No. 114 Nassau Street, New York.
TO

OF
Wood Lawn, Staten Island,
THIS JOURNAL
IS
Most Respectfully Dedicated,
BY
THE AUTHOR.

Note to the Reader.

I have, in these pages, endeavored to convey a correct impression, I have stated such facts only as I knew to be facts, and interspersed them with incidents that fell under my own observation. A season’s residence in the mineral regions enabled me to obtain a correct interior view of life in California. The illustrations are truthful, and can be relied upon as faithfully portraying the scenes they are designed to represent. They were drawn upon the spot, and in order to preserve characteristics, even the attitudes of the individuals represented are truthfully given. The first part of this volume is written in a concise manner, with a view to brevity, as the reader is presumed to be anxious to make the shortest possible passage to the Eldorada.