. The young Nimrods in North America : a book for boys . ty was a rare one, as there was a pros-pect of visiting places quite out of the ordinary routes of travel. Thetelegraph was of great use to the travellers in arranging the details oftheir trip, as it enabled them to consult with friends in New York andSan Francisco—all within a few hours, and to settle various little mattersof money and vacations without any delay. All honor to the telegraphfor the advantages it has conferred on the human race in the rapid trans-mission of the messages of business or friendship, of diplomacy or calam-ity
. The young Nimrods in North America : a book for boys . ty was a rare one, as there was a pros-pect of visiting places quite out of the ordinary routes of travel. Thetelegraph was of great use to the travellers in arranging the details oftheir trip, as it enabled them to consult with friends in New York andSan Francisco—all within a few hours, and to settle various little mattersof money and vacations without any delay. All honor to the telegraphfor the advantages it has conferred on the human race in the rapid trans-mission of the messages of business or friendship, of diplomacy or calam-ity, in this latter half of the nineteenth century. And so they went westward, and did not halt till they reached SanFrancisco. If any of our readers wish to know about a journey overlandby the Pacific Railway, they are respectfully referred elsewhere.* At the station at Oakland, on the opposite shore of the bay from SanFrancisco, they were met by Major Barton, an old friend of the boys were introduced to the major, and then the party went on. ALKALI DESERT, CENTRAL PACIFIC RAILWAY. board the magnificent ferry-boat that was to convey them to the greatcity by the Western Ocean. During the passage across the bay the majorexplained their proposed trip, and said they had arrived just in time. You must defer any investigation of California and its wonders tillyour return from our cruise, he continued, as we are off to-morrow. * The Boy Travellers in the Fur East: Adventures of Two Youths in .1 Journey to Japannnd China. By Thomas W. Knox, Harper & Brothers, New York, 1880. 2G6 THE YOUNG NIMRODS. We will stop to-night at the Palace Hotel—the largest and finest hotelon the face of the earth—and to-morrow morning we go on board a O O little steamer that will take ns to the Farallon Islands. We will spenda few hours there, and then return to San Francisco, to go at once on theship that is to carry us along the coast. Yon need no preparation of any kind, as the ship is full
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