. The argonauts of 'forty-nine, some recollections of the plains and the diggings. NEAR THE BaCKBONE OF THE SIERRA.—(ADAPTED FROM PACIFIC A CHASE. T05 grant trail as far as Leek Springs, at which point wefound ourselves up among the branches of the statelysugar pines, on the crust of the snow, which was sosolidly packed that our horse^s hoofs made just indent-ation enough to make it comfortable traveling. Atthis point the backbone of the Sierra was in plain viewand apparently but a few miles away. Swathed inwinter snows of untold depth, as it now was, this greatdivide wor
. The argonauts of 'forty-nine, some recollections of the plains and the diggings. NEAR THE BaCKBONE OF THE SIERRA.—(ADAPTED FROM PACIFIC A CHASE. T05 grant trail as far as Leek Springs, at which point wefound ourselves up among the branches of the statelysugar pines, on the crust of the snow, which was sosolidly packed that our horse^s hoofs made just indent-ation enough to make it comfortable traveling. Atthis point the backbone of the Sierra was in plain viewand apparently but a few miles away. Swathed inwinter snows of untold depth, as it now was, this greatdivide wore a most ominous and forbidding aspect,and sent a shudder of awe through the soul as we con-templated its awful majesty: With foundations seamed and knit. And wrought and bound by golden bars,Sierras peaks serenely sit And challenge heavens sentry-stars. Well, it was on the of the American Riv-er, or on a tributary thereto, somewhere in this region,that we were to find a party of miners that had beenrolling out the pound chunks the whole winter is to say, it had conlidingl} come to our earsthat some one had affirmed that
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