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Updated: June 1, 2025
It was very curious to sit on the veranda at the farm-house, after dinner, with a high levee immediately in front of us almost hiding the Sacramento River, and with a broad canal the inner ditch full of fresh water, running along the boundary as far as the eye could reach, the level of the levee broken occasionally by tide-gates.
These two places, the former tide-gates of the city's life, impressed Stern most painfully of anything.
At frequent intervals are self-acting tide-gates for drainage; these are made of the redwood of the coast, which does not rot in the water. The rise and fall of the tides is about six feet. The levees have been in some places troubled with beaver, which, however, are now hunted for their fur, and will not long be troublesome. There is no musk-rat an animal which would do serious damage here.
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