. The argonauts of 'forty-nine, some recollections of the plains and the diggings. 6j:J^;. CALIFORNIA LYNX.—(REDRAWN FROM , IN HUTCHINSCALIFORNIA MAGAZINE, 185S, nation. We were delighted with the prospect thatopened up before us. The mountains swung awayfrom the stream to the right and in front, leaving aspace of se\eral thousand acres intervening. Thisspace was comparatively open and level, and wascarved into a series of gentle, grass-clad undulations,which here and there sloped away into rich, alluvialbottoms, and through which, at frequent intervals, 122 A DIGGER HORNETS NEST. bright
. The argonauts of 'forty-nine, some recollections of the plains and the diggings. 6j:J^;. CALIFORNIA LYNX.—(REDRAWN FROM , IN HUTCHINSCALIFORNIA MAGAZINE, 185S, nation. We were delighted with the prospect thatopened up before us. The mountains swung awayfrom the stream to the right and in front, leaving aspace of se\eral thousand acres intervening. Thisspace was comparatively open and level, and wascarved into a series of gentle, grass-clad undulations,which here and there sloped away into rich, alluvialbottoms, and through which, at frequent intervals, 122 A DIGGER HORNETS NEST. bright, sparkling rivulets came plashing down fromtheir mountain sources. The general surface wassparsely dotted with low, heavy-topped oaks, whilethe higher points were crowned with dark-green tuftsof firs and pines, the whole being bordered about bysombrous, massive mountains, as if to complete thepicture. We had so long been cooped up in the nar-row mountain confines that we now felt that we hadroom to breathe full and free once more. Yet, withal,how inscrutuable seemed the order of Pro
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