Show A legend the indians of san juan valley have a legend of a time when their neighbors of the north used to pass by this route through to the lakes and trade their paints vermillion from new almaden to the Noto Noton otoe and other southern tribes I 1 am also ajao informed that a tribe of indians near sacramento have a similar legend in absence of better proof the following conclusions appear to be facts facto let that the bay of san francisco is of recent formation and previous ions to that time the varies vallies of sacramento san josquin and santa clara were the largest of a series of lakes similar to our northern lakes ad that these lakes and their tributaries tributa ries were drained by one outlets outlet similar to the st lawrence and add detroit ad that the salinas plain was the channel and the day bay of monterey the outlet into the ocean as evidences exhibit ath that just opposite dry river there once has been a waterfall water fall wl of greater height and magnitude than niagara and that the whole volume of water concentrated from we sierra had no other outlet ath 5 that though a freak of quake or some other cause the course odthe river was latterly in the centre of the coast range inclined northwesterly and old mutely washed out of the present santa anria anna pass which leads into the region of san felipe and the pa pajaro juro j and that for centuries that mat was the 0 channel of the great river outlet of the lakes ath that kt at a AM later period an aa earth quake rent asunder the coast range where the bay of san francisco now is and that the formation of our present system of rivers rivera is the result of that event and natural gravitation of rStockton wate jom journal aal 1 I 1 |