A popular work directed towards prospective English gold seekers, with "sage advice" on such details as the arrival at port, fares, outfits, and conduct on board ship. Though Howes calls it "One of the fullest and most interesting of contemporary accounts," Kurutz describes it as a "scissors-and-paste creation compiled from the writings of Americans such as John C. Fremont and Bayard Taylor and excerpts taken from English eye-witnesses published in English newspapers." Some copies contained nine hand-colored plates instead of the present three, but most copies examined by Kurutz had only three, as the present copy. The plates are quite striking, and the coloring vibrant, with the frontispiece showing a wagon train on the move, the pictorial title depicting gold panning, and within a view of an encampment in the Sacramento Valley; the map covers the American West with the California Gold region colored in yellow. Cowan p.93; Graff 1347; Howes F178; Kurutz 242; Sabin 9973; Streeter 2623; Wheat Books 4; Wheat Maps 144.