In 1877 he went to Connecticut , but soon returned to California and returned to the Republic of Salvador as a state geologist in the fall of 1879 .
He returned to Connecticut in 1877 , but soon returned to California and went to the Republic of Salvador in the fall of 1879 as a state geologist .

Are these two sentences paraphrases of each other?
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[1]. no.
[2]. yes.
[1].