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CONTENTS


  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




  CALIFORNIA

  AS IT IS, AND AS IT MAY BE,

  OR,

  A GUIDE TO THE GOLD REGION.

  BY F. P. WIERZBICKI, M. D.
  SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA.

  FIRST EDITION.

  **

  SAN FRANCISCO:
  PRINTED BY WASHINGTON BARTLETT,
  NO. 8, CLAY STREET.
  1849.




COPY RIGHT SECURED.




PREFACE.


The residence of several years in the country together with his
familiarity with its whole extent, not excluding the Gold Region in
which he passed more than four months rambling over its mountains,
and even crossing the Sierra Nevada to the verge of the great Western
Desert, give the writer of these pages a degree of confidence in the
belief that by presenting this work to the public, notwithstanding the
numerous books that have already appeared upon the subject, he supplies
the desideratum