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The natural wealth of California; comprising early history; geography, topography, and scenery; climate; agriculture and commercial products; geology, zoology, and botany; mineralogy, mines, and mining processes; manufactures; steamship lines, railroads, and commerce; immigration, population and society; educational institutions and literature; together with a detailed description of each county ..

Titus Fey Cronise · 1868 · Scanned text · Free in the US

315,974 words · about 22 h 8 min to read

Period artwork: Interior of the Bodleian Library, 1845
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Licence: PD-US · Published 1868 (before 1884; date from the PleIAs English-PD record). The dataset curator states the whole collection is public domain in all regions (curator assertion, not independently verified); treated as public domain in the US.

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Author
Titus Fey Cronise
Language
English
Published
1868
Length
315,974 words · about 22 h 8 min
Sections
7 reader sections
Text
Scanned text, read from page scans by OCR; may contain errors
Rights
Public domain in the United States

 

Contents (7)
  1. Front matter about 13 min
  2. Contents about 7 min
  3. Chapter I. Eaely Histoey about 2 h 12 min
  4. Chapter II. Geogeaphy And Topogeaphy about 38 min
  5. Chapter III. The Counties Of Califoeota about 8 h 21 min
  6. Chapter V. Ageicultuke about 10 h 8 min
  7. Index about 29 min
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Front matter

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CORNELL

UNIVERSITY

Contents

CHAPTEE I.

EAEIiT HISTOBT.

Introduction — Origin of the Name — ^By "Wliom Discovered — ^The Changes in its Boundaries — The Missions— Their Beginning and End — The Aborigines of California— The Early- Settlers — Commerce of California while under Spanish and Mexican Eule — ^The Acquisition of Oalifomia by the United States. Page 1

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