Eastern times. [volume] (Bath, Me.) 1846-1857, 1851-03-13


serves mueh7of its freshness and green, even
when other portions are complete crisp.
There are but few interesting points on this
route,ahhough il lies through thatlortisAA Of
the Statewiich has been lon sst knqwn to
our people-the portion throug ;~hic Col.
Fremont travelled, as described IN Ids "Rspor,,"
when he came over the crest Of the Sierra Ne
vada, in mid winter and foundhis way down
the course of the American river to Suffers
Fert,t@o- miles from the present site ofSacra--
mento city. To show how little correct knowl-
ease was Possessed If this ceqatrs ,prior;tot
discovery of the gold mines, it is sufficient to
refer to single fact, to wit that in all the
maps of the country as found in our common
school aliases, the Sacramento river is made
| to rise east OF the Sierra Nevada range, and to
find passage westward through that chain of
mountains; whereas the Sierra as effectually
separates the waters falling into San Francisco
bay from those falling into the guilt of California
as the Rocky Mountains do those falling into
the two great oceans, or as the Alleghanies do
the waters passing through the Atlantic States,
from those flowing west and becoming tributa-
ry to the Mississippi Even Col Fremont did
not know but he was on the Sacramento for
long time after he commenced following the
"South Fork" and finally speaks of it as the
Rio de los Americanos,'' with a large branch
coming into it from the north, some days ride
before arriving at Suffers Fort. This "branch'
is no other than the united waters of the
middle" and "North Forks" and so equally
divided are the waters of the river between
these several Forks, that no one now pretends
to say which is the American river, but they
are spoken Of as the middle" NORTH and
South Forks" the American river being
known as such only below the triune junction.
"Suttcr's Fort''-two miles from Sacramento
long tine the residence of Capt JonN A.
| SUFFER-. senior, who was monarch of all he
surveyed" and who seemed to possess unlim-
| tied control over the miserable Indians of the
neighborhood-is an uninviting pile of adobe,
| (sun dried brick) now prostituted to the igno
| BILE purposes of dram shops, gaming rooms hos
| pitfalls, doctors offices. blacksmiths shops, car
riage shops, and such like, looking like any
, thing but formidable :ortification bristling
with bayonets and gaping with the mouths of
/ numerous mortars doubt II ever the walls
| saw much of fight, or experienced many of the
4 shocks of reboundinr cannon. for tbev look N
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