San Joaquin, a river of California, rises in the Sierra Nevada, and runs first SW., then NNW. to Suisun Bay, near the mouth of the Sacramento River. It receives numerous branches—the Merced, Tuolumne, Stanislaus, &c.—and has a course of 400 miles, mostly navigable for small steamboats.
San Joaquin
Chambers's Encyclopaedia, Volume 9: Bound to Swansea, p. 148
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