The History of California

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The county in which the river rises assumed its name.
San Joaquin: In 1813, Lieutenant Gabriel Moraga explored the valley of rushes, and named a rivulet, which rises in the Sierras and empties into Lake Bueua Vista, San Joaquin, after the legendary father of tlie Virgin. The 304 THE HISTOKY OF CALIFOEJSTIA.
CHAP, rivulet named the great river ; tlie river named tlie valley and tlie county. 1850. Tuolumne : A corruption from tlie Indian word talmalaume, meaning a cluster of stone wigwams.
Maripo
...sa signifies liutteriiy. A hunting party of Californians, in 1807, observed the trees about the river, where they pitched their tents, gorgeous with butterflies. They named the river Mariposa, and the river named the county.
It is a curious comment on the small import- ance attached to jiolitics in those times, that there was really danger lest the first Legisla- ture should be dissolved for lack of a quorum. Two senators and three assemblymen, includ- ing the speaker, early resigned, though some of them did it to take other ofiices to which they were elected.


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