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An overland journey, from New York to San Francisco in the summer of 1859

Note 3 — XII. THE PLAINS—THE MOUNTAINS.

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Since writing the above, I learn by a newly arrived Pike’s Peaker that the waterless stretch of desert is already a hundred miles long, and that every day’s sun is extending it.

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