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Jones' Pantoscope of California - Part 1 (33 pages)
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JONES’ PANTOSCOPE OF CALIFORNIA 111
[Endorsement on back of Section Fourth—Jones’ Pantoscope)
Jones’ “Pantoscope’’ or Overland Journey to California.
I visited Melrose, near Boston, in Nov. 1852, and procured these
Sketches from the dagueerotypes of M’ Jones, then being transferred
to canvass by Messrs. Chappel, Bartholomew, Burham, & others.
Jones was to furnish an article for Harper's Magazine, descriptive of
the pictures and his journey, but delayed the matter almost two years,
when Brewerton and others had occupied the ground. So the matter has
never been used. The Harpers this day, (Sept. 5, 1854,) paid the
expenses of my visit to Melrose, and gave me the pictures.
B. J LOSSING
LECTURE TO JONE’S PANTOSCOPE OF CALIFORNIA &c
rt Section Nebraska Plains
With the Immense Emmigration who crossed the plains a few
years since to California our artist found himself travelling among some
of the wildest and grandest scenery in the world, Not satisfied with
the sketches which filled his note book on the journey outward, It was
resolved In San francisco though involving Enormous Expence, to
daguareotype that intensely interesting region, Its towns, cities, and diggings, and thence Recrossing the Plains to daguereotype Every thing
there found to interest, and instruct, the curias, and Observing traveller From an immence collection of Daguereotypes thus obtained
at great cost of means and toil, and immenent perils, This collassal
triumph of genius has been Elaborated by the United Labors of some
of the first Artists of the Union.
Our opening scene, is a birds eye view! of that wide extended
region lying between the Missouri river, and the summits of the Sierra
Navada Mountains of California, — Comprising in its limits portions
of Nebraska, Kansas, and Oregon Territories and the Whole of Utah.
Leaving the Missouri, we travel over rolling plains; graduly and
almost impreceptably attaining a high altitude, to the Eastren base of
the Rocky Mountains. Some distance from the Messouri and especially along the margin of its tributaries A considerable degree of fertility obtains. The rolling prairies are covered with rank grasses,
ornate through the vernal season with the most brilliant wild flowers
far as the eye extends there is a succession of rolling hills singularly
regular in form, as though a mighty swelling ocean had been suddenly
Congealed. The timber is entirely confined to the immediate margin
1 The “bird’s eye view” mentioned in this connection has not been discovered.
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