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Title: The Shirley Letters from California Mines in 1851-52

Author: Louise Amelia Knapp Smith Clappe

Release Date: November 1, 2007 [EBook #23280]

Language: English

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_The_ Shirley Letters

_Other_ REPRINTS _Issued_

CALIFORNIA. _A_ HISTORY _of_ UPPER & LOWER CALIFORNIA _from their_
FIRST DISCOVERY _to the_ PRESENT TIME [1835]. Comprising an Account of
the Climate, Soil, Natural Productions, Agriculture, Commerce, &c. A
full view of the Missionary Establishments, and condition of the free
and domesticated Indians. With an Appendix relating to Steam-navigation
in the Pacific. ILLUSTRATED with a new Map, Plans of the Harbors, and
numerous Engravings. By ALEXANDER FORBES, Esq. Reprinted, page for
page, and approximately line for line, from the original edition
published by Smith, Elder, & Co., London, 1839, and to which is added a
NEW INDEX.

_Price_ $10, _net_.

VOYAGE _of the_ SONORA _in the_ SECOND BUCARELI EXPEDITION _to_ EXPLORE
_the_ NORTHWEST COAST, SURVEY _the_ PORT _of_ SAN FRANCISCO, _and_
FOUND FRANCISCAN MISSIONS _and a_ PRESIDIO _and_ PUEBLO _at that_ PORT.
The JOURNAL kept in 1775 on the SONORA by DON FRANCISCO MOURELLE, the
Second Pilot of the Fleet constituting the Sea Division of the
Expedition. Translated by the HON. DAINES BARRINGTON from the original
Spanish manuscript. Reprinted line for line and page for page from
BARRINGTON'S MISCELLANIES, published in London in 1781. With concise
NOTES showing the Voyages of the Earliest Explorers on the Coast, the
Sea and Land Expeditions of GALVEZ and of BUCARELI for the settlement
of California and for founding Missions, and MANY OTHER INTERESTING
NOTES, as well as AN ENTIRELY NEW INDEX TO BOTH THE JOURNAL AND THE