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APPRECIATIVE VISITORS - J. G. Lemmon and E. L. Case, two literary and scientific gentlemen from Sierra Valley, California, who are taking a botanical, geological, mineralogical and generally observant tour through the Sierra Nevada mountains, arrived in Gold Hill yesterday. They travel with their own outfit, consisting of a light covered wagon drawn by two fine black steeds, one of which closely resembles the famous "woolly horse" of Colonel Fremont in the texture and glossy curliness of his hair. This wagon contains a heterogenous cargo of boxes, satchels, etc. full of dried herbs, flowers, and all that sort of thing; also bacon, salt, pepper, flour and other grub, with cooking utensils sandwiched in between. They camp out when in the mountains and get along finely, visiting all accessible points they see fit to. They started out June 20th, and have visited the Lake Tahoe section, the big trees of Calavera and Yosemite, returning through the southern sectrion of the gold mines, and by way of Silver Mountain on the upper Carson. They were both soldiers in the Union army during the war of the rebellion, and have since been residents of California. They are excellent botanical scholars and have already forwarded to Professor Bolander, of that State, many new and rare specimens of flowers and plants, which will at some future day have a place in the proposed boranical encyclopedia of the Pacific coast. This morning they took a little walk up to the summit of Mount Davidson, just to see what the top of it was made of, and this afternoon they went down to the bottom of the Crown Point mine for a similar purpose, going higher and lower in a single day than anybody we have heard of lately. They view everything with a keen, appreciative eye, and evidently enjoy themselves, and all they see, to the most rational extent.