CHAPTER XXXIII.--SAN FRANCISCO.

San Francisco.--The Golden State.--San Francisco Bay.--Golden Gate.--Conquest of California by Fremont, 1848.--Discovery of Gold.--Rush to the Mines, 1849.--"Forty-niners."--Great Rise in Provisions and Wages.--Miners Homeward Bound.--Dissipation and Vice in the City.--Vigilance Committee.--Great Influx of Miners in 1850.--Immense Gold Yield.--Climate.--Earthquakes.-- Productions.--Irrigation.--Streets and Buildings.--Churches.-- Lone Mountain Cemetery.--Cliff House.--Seal Rock.--Theatres.-- Chinese Quarter.--Chinese Theatres.--Joss Houses.--Emigration Companies.--The Chinese Question.--Cheap Labor.--"The Chinese Must Go."--Present Population and Commerce of San Francisco.-- Exports.--Manufactures.--Cosmopolitan Nature of Inhabitants. 448-472