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

CHAPTER XXV.
BIG BUTTE-MOUNT SHASTA-YUBA RIVER-TIMBUCTOO-HYDRAULIC GOLD MINING
ROUGH AND READY-GRASS VALLEY-QUARTZ GOLD MINING-AUBURN-AMERICAN
RIVER-ALABASTER CAVE-FOLSOM-CHINESE.
As we left Marysville the Big Butte was seen thirteen miles
to the northwest, lifting its dark brow nineteen hundred feet
above the surrounding plain, on which it stands a majestic and
lonely monarch, as if proclaiming to its giant brother of Sha,st,
visible one hundred and fifty miles off in the far north, and
fourteen thousand three hundred and ninety feet high, that they
alone reign within the great interior valley of four hundred
DISTANT VIEW OF MOUNT SIIASTA.
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