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toward the mines from rancho, hamlet,
and pueblo, and, at length, from Lower California, Oregon, the
Sandwich Islands, Sonora and other Mexican States, and
from along the Coast, as far as Chili [Chile]. The coming of these pre-
-pared the way for the invasion from the
East, and led to anticipations of what might
be witnessed when a year had passed, and time
had been given for the intelligence to take
effect, and bring its hurried adventurers and
its eager argonauts, from the Atlantic side.

It was in December, 1848, that Capt. [Captain] W. H.
Warner in the employ of General Sutter, surveyed, laid out, & mapped a site for
a City, reaching from the Fort to the "Embarca-
-dero" on the Sacramento river [River], two miles away.
The projected city was named from the river Sacramento. About this
time J. A. Sutter Jr. arrived upon the scene,
and to him the site of the nascent city