| A railway survey sketch artist, geologist and mining engineer, William
Blake was a student of mineralogy and chemistry at Yale University and
then became the official geologist and artist, along with Charles
Koppel, of Lt. R.S. Williamson's 1853 survey in California of potential
rail and road building routes that would connect the east-west surveys
along the 32nd and 35th parallels. The assignment by mandate of
Congress was to examine especially the mountain passes of the Sierra
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