Mississippi Democrat. (Carrollton, Miss.) 1844-18??, 1846-03-18

hundred miles through an open level coun
try, naturally fertile, and annually over
flowed like the Nile, enriches and adorni
the region through which it runs; cut on
the east side by numerous tributary streams
skirIed with timber, and striped on III,
west by groves, and lakes, and great sa
yannahs, and presents one OF the ri ches
and most beautiful regions on the face OIL
the earth 10 The wet season this river il
navgable 10 steamers os three hundred
tons tor nearly two hundred miles abare
ITS mouth; and even in The dry est season,
small boats, without dilncutv, can make
their way for over one hundred miles 10
what is called the Forks, where the Sac
ramento receives lis great western branch,
named upon the map OF Captain Wilkes,
Destruction river, which rises in Sierre
Nevada, and flows for about Two hundred
miles with rapid current, through fer.
tile region into its principal stream. The
Jesu-Maria rises amidst the heights OF
the Snowy Mountains, directly south of
cape Mendocino, and flowing south al an
average distance oftwenty miles rom the
ocean, through region of hills and roll.
ing plains heavily covered with forests Of
most valuble timber, falls into the Bay OF
San Francisco.
The valuable part Of Upper California is
thus seen to embrace that region OF the
province drained by the waters that dis
lcharge themselves, at San francisco, into.
the Pacific sea. Its superficial extent
cannot be estimated at less than 10000
square miles, nearly us much as that oil The
Stoe Of New York, and two thirds that Of
The British Islands. OF its beauty aud
fertility all travellers agree in giving most
glowing and enthusiastic descriptions
Perouse, one Of The earliest vislauts, SAYS
that its " climate differs a little from iae
southern provinces of France; al least
the cold is never SO piercing there, hnl
the heat OF summer is much more mode.
rate, owing to the continual fugs Which
reign there, and which procure for The land
a humidity very favorable n yegeiati0n.'
Immediately upon the coast it has been
represented that the sea winds and fogs
blast the foliage Of trees IN exposed sta.
atoms; on leaving this, nothing of the kindi
is witnessed, and all alike enchan,e with
The boundless fertility and unequaled
beauty Of inland regions The English
voyager, Vancouver, who Afterwards ira
gersed this country at an early day, aIte
speaking of the mountains, "the sides
and SUBMITS Of which exhibited high
degree OF luxuriant fertility" says,
We had not proceeded far, when we
entered country | little expected 10 find
in these regions. For about twenty miles
it could only be compared 10 a park,
which had originally been planted with
the true old English oak; the underwood,
that had probably attained its EARLIEST
growth had the appearance having been
cleared away, and had lett stately lords OF
the forest in complete possession Of the
soil, which was covered with luxuriant
heritage, and beautifully diversified with
pleasing eminences and valleys; which,
with the lofty range Of mountains that
bounded The prospect, required only to be
adorned with the neat habtalions Of an
industrious people TO produce scene no,
inferior to the most studied effect Of taste
in the disposal of grounds"
The same traveller was struck with
+" the quality, quantity, and variety Of lis
excellent productions, indigenous 10 the
country, but apperaining TO the temperate
as well as the tornd zone; y and he makes
the remark, that not one species had
he sown o. planted that Ind not flourished
and yielded its fruits in abundance and Of
excellent qualities" Equally explicit, and
Of still more authority is the statement Of
Humboldt
New California is as welI watered and
as fertile az Old California is arid and sio.
ny. The climate is much more mild than q,
in the same attitudes on the eastern side
ofthe New Continent, (Which includes the
Alautic coast from Boston 10 Savannh,) ,
the frequent iogs give yigor to vegetation
aud ferlllize the soil, which is covered
with a biack and spongy earth"
Although agriculture, throughout this, |
vast and fertile region, is OF the rndest
and most unskllful character, nearly all Z
kinds Of grain have been readily raised.
In the imme late neghborhopd Of San
Francisco Bay the most extraordinary ,
crops can be easily produced. DR., Marsh, /
long a resident on The banks Of the Sacra.
mento, informed Mr. Farnhlm That rom
ten bushels Of wheat he had known 10 he
harvested a cropof 1862; though be says
Ibai The average yield is from 80 to so
bushels from one that is sown. This part
IF this statement is Incredible; but Conn
modnre Wilkes mentions an instance in
which $500 bushels were harvested from
80 sown; and he places the average crop 4
Al 30 fold. The most moderate Of these