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Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Jan 27, 1898

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 24, No. 4.

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Authenticated News

“AUTHENTICATED” NEWS.—The unreliable character of much that passes for knowledge in this world is aptly illustrated in the following statement, which is said to be taken from an American almanac printed in 1812: “California is a wild and almost unknown land covered throughout the year by dense fogs, as damp as they are unhealthful. On the northern shores live anthropophagi, and in the interior are active volcanoes and vast plains of shifting snow, which sometimes shoot up columns to inconceivable heights.” The book adds that some of these statements would seem incredible were they not so well authenticated by trustworthy travelers.