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Published: 2018-02-05
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Excerpt from The Bay of San Francisco, Vol. 2: The Metropolis of the Pacific Coast and Its Suburban Cities; A History There seeming to be no opening accessible to him in his favorite trade, that of machin ist, near his paternal home, he went to Liver pool and spent a year and a half as clerk in a book-store. Taking advantage of the oppor tunities thus afforded for reading and study, he learned much about the Western World, and became infatuated with the idea of com ing to America. Upon learning of this desire of the young adventurer, his father sent him a peremptory order to come home. Young James next obtained employment as clerk in in mill near the homestead, which position, however, he terminated nine months later by the financial failure of the firm. After work ing a few months for a ship and forwarding agency in Glasgow - still determined to go to a trade he sailed, unknown to his parents, for Calais, France, arriving there just in time to witness the emperor review the troops on their leaving for the Crimean war. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.