Oregon and California in 1848 . Wording the ANON. OREGON AND CALIFORNIA IN 1848: BY J. QUINN THORNTON. LATE JUDGE OF THE SITREME COURT OF OREGON, AND CORRESPONDING MEMBEROF THE AMERICAN INSTITUTE. WITH AN APPENDIX, « INCLUDINU RECENT AND Al TIIKNTIC INFORMATION ON THE 8UBJECT OF THE GOLD MINKS OF CALIFORNIA, AND OTHER VALUABLE MATTER OF INTEREST TO THE KMICRANT, ETC. Miftl) I-Ilustvatfons auto a fVlap. N T W \ n I. I H I. Si V o L. I. N E W Y O n K : HARPER & BROTHERS, PUBLISHERS,82 CLIFF STREET. 184 9. Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year one thousandeight hundred and forty-nine
Oregon and California in 1848 . Wording the ANON. OREGON AND CALIFORNIA IN 1848: BY J. QUINN THORNTON. LATE JUDGE OF THE SITREME COURT OF OREGON, AND CORRESPONDING MEMBEROF THE AMERICAN INSTITUTE. WITH AN APPENDIX, « INCLUDINU RECENT AND Al TIIKNTIC INFORMATION ON THE 8UBJECT OF THE GOLD MINKS OF CALIFORNIA, AND OTHER VALUABLE MATTER OF INTEREST TO THE KMICRANT, ETC. Miftl) I-Ilustvatfons auto a fVlap. N T W \ n I. I H I. Si V o L. I. N E W Y O n K : HARPER & BROTHERS, PUBLISHERS,82 CLIFF STREET. 184 9. Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year one thousandeight hundred and forty-nine, byHarper & Brothers,&ISuQ,ffice-&f the District ??Com junT 23 m the. uthern District DEDICATION. My dear Wife : To whom could I inscribe these pages more appro-priately than to yourself? There are many circum-stances which make this peculiarly proper. In addi-tion to many other facta to which I might refer asshowing the peculiar fitness of thai which I now pro-pose to do, the single ciroumstanoe that you cheer-fully shared with y«»ur feeble and travel-worn husbandthe toils and dangers of the journey, the incidents ofwhich he proposes to narrate, would itself suggest thededication of I he volume to you. Mohammed informs us that, although he hadknown many perfect men, he had known only fourperfect women. These Asa, the wife of Pha-raoh; Mary, the daughter of [mram; Khadijah, thedaughter of Khouailed; and Patima, the daughterof Mcbamme I. There, arc qo means of ascertainingwhat were the reasons which induced him to makethe ill-natured distinction between the sexes; for itis a fact well known to ever) man whose associationshave not been most unfortu
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