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Three Years in California by John D. Borthwick (1857)(LoC) (423 pages)

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CHAPTER XXVI. FRENCH MINERS—THEIR MENAGE—THEIR CAPACITY AS MINERS— FRENCHMEN AS COLONISTS—SOCIAL EQUALITY IN THE MINES— THE REASON OF IT—AND THE RESULT, THE only miners on the Creek were Frenchmen, two or three of whom lived in a very neat log-cabin, close to the tunnel. Behind it was a small kitchengarden in a high state of cultivation, and alongside was a very diminutive fac-simile of the cabin itself, which was tenanted by a knowing-looking little terrier-dog. The whole establishment had a finished and civilised air about it, and was got up with a regard to appearances which was quite unusual. But of all the men of different nations in the mines, the French were most decidedly those who, judging from their domestic life, appeared to be most at home. Not that they were a bit better than others able to stand the hard work and exposure and privations, but about all their huts and cabins, however roughly constructed they might be, there was something in the minor details which bespoke more permanency