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Ch. 1: Sleepy Utopia

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10 Gold Rush Album
In September, 1848, Augustus Harrison took the brig Belfast into the harbor of San Francisco, one of the first traders to come from the Eastern states after the gold rush started. He disposed of his cargo at a roaring profit and took the trouble to draw the plan of the city and harbor shown above. The pencil notations were made at a later date. Its neat grid of streets may be compared with the view below, drawn in November of the same year by J. C. Ward. All was in readiness now, as the word winged eastward.
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