Beadle's Dime Novels, No. 91: The Lost Cache — page 7: what you’re looking at

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THE LOST CACHE. CHAPTER [, THE MYSTERIOUS MAP MM, Li fe eut, * W 40 to Spring. ” W 21:15 8,124 to square buried sone. Circle of AX strikes cache. Drop perpendicular below. M. B. THe strange and somewhat incomprehensible document above set forth formed the subject of a discussion between two young men, in an upper room of a pleasant house in St. Louis. It was many—but not a great many—years ago ; before Pike’s Peak had attracted its crowds of adventurers, before Washoe had been heard of, before the wealth in gold and silver of fair Idaho and Montana had been even suspected. The auriferous riches of California had been discovered, and were being ‘rapidly developed, and that was a sufficient sensation to last a few years, even in America. | connicloooks.com