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60 the Sierra Nevada - which he had just passed. Such scenery as this might move the meanest taste. None possessed if soul could pass this by. It is only unfortunate that the lives of Nature And the Beautiful can find so much to praise in California which holds out so little inducement to the agriculturist and the husbandman - Gathering up the fragments of our dinner - we entered the next ravine. Here we found miners at work. The first hailed Dr Folger - who so secretly and suddenly withdrew from the island the other day. He was evidently surprise and annoyed. Did not wish to recognise us - and spoke disparagingly - of his place - and lyingly up how he came there. We amused ourselves awhile - with inguinis although we knew all his movements - before we found him - an dthen left the "menu shote" in the enjoyment of his own little soul Farther down the ravine we found the old Mormon and his daughter at work. They recogised us - and greeted us cordially. They had marked out a tract of the ravine as their shore. And it is due to California Miners - under no restraint whatever of law and society to say - such landmarks are respected and held sacred. We employed the afternoon in prospecting with various success - none of us [?] promisary very largely. Returning we saw a dog gnawing the flesh from a buried on which he had uncovered. I thought it was a grave of some human person - but finding my mistake - left the dog in undisturbed possession. We recrossed the large stream farther towards it head and this time without accidents. We found on the roads some of the mishaps which teamsters encounter in this country at this season of the yar. Another waggon was being hauled out of the old slough now as we came along - dead mules or oxed an stroud hither and yon. And in the mill wad - within a half mile we saw five waggons sloughed and deserted - most of the five having a dead ox beside it. Keeping out of the wad and following up the hollows in hopes of game - we trudged wearily towards home. The setting sun threw his last rays aslant the hill tops and the moon in her second quarter - gradually increased in brilliancy with the declining day. I saw is one of the hollows discovered an ox mind inextricably - attempting to cross while grazing it had mind - and after floundering - till utterly incapable of further exertion - was patiently