CHAPTER NINETEENTH.--Canalling operations--Unsuccessful

Experiments--Coffee-Mills and Gold Washers--Formation of Bars--Gold removed from the Mountains during the Rainy Season--Snow on the Mountains, and its Dissolution--Rise and Fall of the River--Stock Speculations--Quicksilver Machines--Separation of Gold and Quicksilver--Individual Enterprise--Incentives to Exertion--Expenses, 113

CHAPTER TWENTIETH.--Commotion in the Political Elements--California a State--Slavery Prohibited--Political Campaign, and the Rainy Season--Speech of a Would-be-Governor--Enthusiasm and Brandy--Election Districts--Ballot-Boxes and Umbrellas--Miners in a Transition State--Preparations for the Rainy Season--Primitive Habitations--Trade Improving--Advent of the Rainy Season--Its Terrific Effects--Rapid Rise of the River--Machines destroyed--Arrivals--My Store and Bed--A Business Suit--Distressing Groans--The Bottle a Consolation--Several Strange Specimens of Humanity cooking Breakfast--The Scurvy--A Death, 118