Excerpt from Appleton's New York City and Vicinity Guide: Giving a Full and Accurate Description of the Great Metropolis and Environs Being the Journal of a Tour, by the Emigrant Route and South Pass of the Rocky Mountains, across the Continent of North America, the Great Desert Basin and through California, in the years 1846, and 1847. By edwin bryant, late Alcalde of San Francisco. Sixth edition, with an Appendix containing Accounts of the Gold Mines. 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.