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Show ' 160 NATIONAL WAGON ROAD GUIDE. Our women are ·either very beautiful or homely as Digger squaws, for many of them are no.thin~ more nor less. Our people are rich and making. money, ·or miserably hard up ; or one day poor and .the next counting their gold by pounds. A man may be without a ditn~ in the world, and yet be treading upon gold at every step. lie may have no wife, or he may have half a dozen, just as he pleases, and a whole church and people- Mormo ustain him in his privileges. .Animals suppo. attained their full growth in the East-ern Stat · on being brought here increase in size and weight; nor is this phenomena entirely confiqed to- 'the 1~ bru tc sp~ies ; whilst lumber of almost an:y descri p~ion, made into furniture at the East, if carried into any por~ tion of ·california inland, or away from th~<dire~t influence of the ocean breezes, ~hrinks end wise.. · 'rhousands here live in the enjoyment of perfect health, from year to year, but as in all · co.~tries, some must die; and 'vhilst many are buried in thEhquiet.:tomb, others upon the burning pyre, are hastily resolve __ I · f. • • their original elements, 'vhilst many, doubtles~ · ip ~ . last repose; occupy places unknown to men. ~ . I And yet thousands have, and other thousands may,· return to their eastern ~oines, or remaining here, with their fa1nilies·and friends around them, pass down througb. life, ever grateful t<? a kind Providence for haviqg, 4-i- 1 rected their thoughts, and guided their footsteps to the· - land of gold, extremes, and contrarieties. |