Excerpt from The History and Topography of the United States of America, Vol. 2 XVII. The future constitution of California 657 XVIII. The valley of the Sacramento. 664 XIX. The diggings 669 XX. Government of San Francisco 684 XXI. Prices of labour and commodities 694 XXII. Productiveness of the diggings 699 XXIII. The approaches to the diggings 704 XXIV. The aboriginal natives 714 XXV. Unsettled state of things 731 XXVI. Administration of justice 736 XXVII. Statistics 753. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.