What I saw on the west coast of South and North America, and at the Hawaiian Islands.: By H. Willis Baxley, M.D.

CHAPTER xXIV.
CITY OF SAN FRANCISCO-BAY OF SAN FRANCISCO-BAY OF SAN PABLO-MARE ISLAND STRAIT OF CARQUENEZ-BENICIA-SUISUN BAY-SACRAMENTO RIYVER-CITY OF SAC RAMENTO-COAST RANGE MOUNTAINS-FEATHER RIVER-MARYSVILLE.
IT has required but a brief survey of surroundings to bring
me to the conclusion that my mode of journalizing must be
changed. An old America has been seen " of gray and leafy
walls, where Ruin greenly dwells," and where moral sense seems
irresponsive to thie inspiration of a lofty civilization. In examining what " Young America " is doing with that part of the hemisphere into which he is infusing a new life, and the resources of
which he is developing in a manner to astonish the world; where
change and progress are written upon every thing, and the realities of to-morrow may contradict the descriptions of to-day, we
must deal more in generalities than specialities. In this manner alone will my California narrative of what I saw, avoid the
ridicule to which it might otherwise be subjected by the presentation of" dissolving views," whose realities, apart from nature,
are merged in other scenes as the eye rests upon the picture.
But a few years have passed since this State was peopled by a
few wild -liexican half-breed herdsmen, who roved over ranches
bounded only by mountain ranges, or the streams which broke
from their untrodden solitudes, to wander through immense
plains, and who slaughtered tens of thousands of cattle for hides
and tallow alone. Now four hundred thousand inhabitants,
nearly all of Caucasian nationalities, led and stimulated by
American example and success, are disembowelling the earth
of its mineral treasures; developing unsurpassed agricultural
wealth, and establishing the means of free intercommunication