The mosque is by no means impossible in the future.
[Illustration: SAN FRANCISCO, 1848.] In 1848, San Francisco was a village of little importance.

The city commenced in '49, and fifteen years later it claimed a population of a hundred and twenty thousand.[B] No one who looks at this city, would suppose it still in its minority.

The architecture is substantial and elegant; the hotels vie with those of New York in expense and luxury; the streets present both good and bad pavements and are well gridironed with railways; houses, stores, shops, wharves, all indicate a permanent and prosperous community.

There are gas-works and foundries and factories, as in older communities.

There are the Mission Mills, making the warmest blankets in the world, from the wool of the California sheep.