California

Your correspondent E.N.W. will find earlier anticipations of "the golden harvest now gathering in California," in vol. iii. of *Hakluyt's Voyages*, p. 440-442, where an account is given of Sir F. Drake's taking possession of Nova Albion. "There is no part of earth here to bee taken up, wherein there is not speciall likelihood of gold or silver." In Callendar's *Voyages*, vol. i. p. 303., and other collections containing Sir F. Drake's voyage to Magellanica, there is the same notice. The earth of the country seemed to promise very rich veins of gold and silver, there being hardly any digging wi…