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... nearly double the size originally intended and promised . These , however , with other interesting matters connected with the progress of San Francisco , and a history of all the important cities and towns of California , will be ...
... nearly double the size originally intended and promised . These , however , with other interesting matters connected with the progress of San Francisco , and a history of all the important cities and towns of California , will be ...
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... nearly as they are known at present . Yet this fact was unaccountably forgotten for one hundred and sixty . years , when Father Kühn ( Kino , of the Spaniards ) seemed , for the first time , to prove that California was not an island ...
... nearly as they are known at present . Yet this fact was unaccountably forgotten for one hundred and sixty . years , when Father Kühn ( Kino , of the Spaniards ) seemed , for the first time , to prove that California was not an island ...
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... nearly to the mouth of the Colorado . Neither Cortez , however , nor Ulloa seems to have discovered the coast of New or Upper California . That honor was reserved to Juan Rodriguez Cabrillo , one of the pilots of Cortez . Cabrillo was a ...
... nearly to the mouth of the Colorado . Neither Cortez , however , nor Ulloa seems to have discovered the coast of New or Upper California . That honor was reserved to Juan Rodriguez Cabrillo , one of the pilots of Cortez . Cabrillo was a ...
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... nearly forty miles , resemble in height and color , those of Great Britain in the English Channel , at Brighton and Dover . Hence the propriety of the old designation of the country , New Albion . We give an illustration of these cliffs ...
... nearly forty miles , resemble in height and color , those of Great Britain in the English Channel , at Brighton and Dover . Hence the propriety of the old designation of the country , New Albion . We give an illustration of these cliffs ...
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... nearly two hundred years after Sir Francis Drake was reputed to have visited it . The mission itself of San Francisco was only founded in 1776 , though it had been projected ever since the discovery of the bay , about the end of October ...
... nearly two hundred years after Sir Francis Drake was reputed to have visited it . The mission itself of San Francisco was only founded in 1776 , though it had been projected ever since the discovery of the bay , about the end of October ...
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Page 812 - ... such per cent as may be granted by Congress on the sale of lands in this State, shall be and remain a perpetual fund, the interest of which, together with all the rents of the unsold lands, and such other means as the Legislature may provide, shall be inviolably appropriated to the support of common schools throughout the State.
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Page 140 - May thirtieth, one thousand eight hundred and forty-eight ; thence running west and along said boundary line to the Pacific Ocean, and extending therein three English miles ; thence running in a northwesterly direction and following the direction of the Pacific coast to the forty-second degree of north latitude ; thence on the line of said forty-second degree of north latitude to the place of beginning. Also, all the islands, harbors and bays along and adjacent to the coast.
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