Deck and port, or, Incidents of a cruise in the United States frigate Congress to California : with sketches of Rio Janeiro, Valparaiso, Lima, Honolulu, and San Francisco (1850)
ultitudes for the plough and sickle. Her arable land, stretching through her spacious valleys and along the broad banks of her rivers, will wave with the golden harvest. The rain- cloud may not visit her in the summer months, but the mountain stream will be induced to throw its showers over her…
Congress (Frigate : 1841-1862) · Voyages to the Pacific coast · Travel
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