Transcriber's note
Cover and Table of Contents created by Transcriber and placed into thePublic Domain.
| Preface | 3 |
| The Country and Its Resources | 5 |
| The Gold Region | 24 |
| Advice to the Miner | 33 |
| Towns of California, and What Relates to Them | 49 |
| The Harbor of San Francisco | 55 |
| Directions for Entering the Harbor of San Francisco | 55 |
| Regulations for the Harbor and Port of San Francisco | 56 |
| The Towns of California (continued) | 57 |
| Errata | 61 |
OR,
A GUIDE TO THE GOLD REGION.
BY F. P. WIERZBICKI, M. D.
SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA.
FIRST EDITION.
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SAN FRANCISCO:
PRINTED BY WASHINGTON BARTLETT,
NO. 8, CLAY STREET.
1849.
COPY RIGHT SECURED.
The residence of several years in the country together with hisfamiliarity with its whole extent, not excluding the Gold Regionin which he passed more than four months rambling over its mountains,and even crossing the Sierra Nevada to the verge of thegreat Western Desert, give the writer of these pages a degree ofconfidence in the belief that by presenting this work to the public,notwithstanding the numerous books that have already appearedupon the subject, he supplies the desideratum so much needed atthis moment, and renders justice to California that of late suffereda little in her reputation by the indiscretion of some of her friends.
THE AUTHOR.
San Francisco, Sept. 30, 1849.
The country lying between the Sierra Nevada and the PacificOcean, and bounded at the north, though somewhat indefinitely, bythe Oregon Territory, and at the South by the Lower California,confined by the late treaty of the two neighboring Republics to theline three miles south of San Diego, is known as Upper California, acountry now engrossing the attention of the civilized world with itsfuture importance. There is no other instance known in historywhere a country just emerging so to say, from obscurity, immediatelyacq