02034cam a22003611 4500 rc 01000807 DLC 20260227111901.0 cr ||||||||||| 830210s1855 nyuaf 000 0 eng rc 01000807 DLC CarP DLC n-us-ca F865 .M3 979.4 Marryat, Frank, 1826-1855. Mountains and molehills; or, Recollections of a burnt journal; by Frank Marryat ... With illustrations by the author. Recollections of a burnt journal New York, Harper & brothers, 1855. x p., 1 l., [13]-393 p. incl. illus., plates. front. 20 cm. "Extracts from a work by Dr. J.B. Trask ... on the geology of California": p. [383]-393. Frank Marryat (1826-1855) left England for California via Panama with a manservant and three hunting dogs in 1850, hoping to find material for a book like his earlier Borneo. On his return to England in 1853, Marryat married and brought his bride back to California that same year. Yellow fever contracted on shipboard forced him to cut the trip short and return to England where he died two years later. Mountains and molehills (1855) is a sportsman-tourist's chronicle of California in the early 1850s: hunting, horse races, bear and bull fights. It also includes an Englishman's bemused comments on social life in San Francisco, Stockton, and the gold fields. Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site. No known restrictions on publication. California Description and travel. California Gold discoveries. Geology California. Ethnic groups California. Law Political aspects California. Mines and mineral resources California. Trask, John B. (John Boardman), 1824-1879. calbk 010 t http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.rbc/calbk.010 51916 51916