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99. Sunday Jan 27th 1850

It is a bright and beautiful day. Wind from the NE. The indications of Spring increase Low tads and frogs make night lively - the hills assume a green tint - number of flowers begin to show their blooms - the winds shift to summer points - and the rains come in showers. Hail beauteous Spring! thou are welcome. Took a long walk with Señor. The social life of California presents many points of interesting observation. It looses here the delicacy and refinement of more settled regions - its wants - comforts - desires are limited to actual necessity. Manners are plain - open - indisguised. The full expression of each individuals disposition and sentiments. They would be called course in the States but here - it is but the expression of the actual influences which act upon the community. Language assumes no polished measure - it is but the vehicle to convey the common ideas incident to miners life. The log house we first visited - is the stopping place of Eddy. Its interior - is bare of furniture. Three tier of berths occupy the sides - the ground is a floor - the trunks and truss of the occupants - are scattered about. A good fire was burning - and we seated ourselves near it on stools cushioned by a piece of deer skin. Eddy and Burling were shaving - their dinners simmered on the fire - we smoked chatted and retired. This is the interior of our California Mansion. It should be called Adam's Hall. Its arrangements are to accomodate 9 men. These cook their own meals - whenever convenient - and occupy their time within doors - in reading - conversing - smoking - or doing what little things they find necessary to their wants or convenience. We walked up the ravine and stoped at the tent of a family who had crossed the plains. Its interior was composed of 2 beds with curtains - table - trunks - chairs and cooking stove. A few boards near the stove made a partial floor. We found three young women in - the daughter and two neighbors visiting her. The father came in presently - and a young man - one of the boarders. He was the fiddler - seated in the back part of the ten he amused himself with tuning his sick fiddle. One of the visitors was a young mother - her child with dirty face toddled about the floor. She expressed herself as tired of this country - wanted to go