“Information Wanted” the landscape, he said, “looks some- thing like a singed cat.” A sketch attributed to the Local of the Enterprise complained of the scenery visible from the summit of Mount Davidson: On the north the eye falls on mountains; looking east, the view is more varied and we see-mountains; turning toward the south we are again delighted with mountains, and paying our addresses to the west the monotony of the scene~ is beautifully interrupted by mountains. Washoe Lake, that has thrown so many romantic young ladies into ecstasy, looks like a sand-bang, about as big as a side of sole leather. In short, whichever way we turn, the eye meets a waste or a Sierra-range beyond range, till they fade away and are lost in the shadows of the distance. We may want poetry, but nobody who ever saw scenery has sincerely praised the view from Mount Davidson.