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Sac. [Sacramento] Oct. 5:1851.

Job – 22: [centered]
23-26 [centered]
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"Then shalt thou lay up
Gold as dust, & the gold of Ophir
as the Stones of the brooks."

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I Impressions &c [etc.] ~

1 Impressed with feeling of the
exhaustless quantity of gold.

Auriferous veins – river-beds –
ravines – (Coyote) Drifts & leads
deep in the hills – top-dirt on
many acres. – Some will last ~