Old Mexico and her lost provinces; a journey in Mexico, southern California, and Arizona, by way of Cuba . rded, that the reversal ofthe churlishness prevailing up to this point seems miracu-lous. There is no doubt, when once the site is understood, asto why San Francisco is located just where it is. It hasthe only natural harbor between Astoria, Oregon, to thenorth, and San Diego, to the south. It bears, besides,with this advantage, such a relation to the resources ofthe back country, that it could not escape a destiny ofgreatness. It is not simply a bay upon which we have entered, butan inla
Old Mexico and her lost provinces; a journey in Mexico, southern California, and Arizona, by way of Cuba . rded, that the reversal ofthe churlishness prevailing up to this point seems miracu-lous. There is no doubt, when once the site is understood, asto why San Francisco is located just where it is. It hasthe only natural harbor between Astoria, Oregon, to thenorth, and San Diego, to the south. It bears, besides,with this advantage, such a relation to the resources ofthe back country, that it could not escape a destiny ofgreatness. It is not simply a bay upon which we have entered, butan inland sea, with a great commerce of its own. Imme-diately in front rise round-backed Goat Island and AngelIsland, resembling monsters asleep; and terraced Alca-traz, with its citadel, as picturesque as a bit of open beyond on many sides, with gleams of lightfalling on white cities under lowering atmospheres ofsmoke. San Francisco, close at hand, piles up impres-sively on steep hills, its bristling structures covering theirundulations sharply from numerous hills. The water- SAN FRANCISCO. 297. 298 OLD MEXICO AND HER LOST PBOVIAXES. front is full of shipping. French and Russian and Britishfrigates, and a Mexican gun-boat, are lying at of all shapes and sizes cross one anothers wakesin the harbor. The lateen-sails of Genoese and Maltesefishermen and the junks of Chinese shrimp-catchers areamong them. Large ferry-boats, superior, as a rule, tothose we are familiar with at the East, ply to Oakland,the Brooklyn of the scene—a city already of fifty thou-sand people; Alameda, with its esplanade of bathingpavilions; Berkeley, with its handsome university andinstitution for blind, deaf, and dumb; San Quentin, withits prison; and rustic Saucelito and San Bafael, under thedark shadow of Mount Tamalpais. From Oakland projects an interminable pier, built bythe Central Pacific Railway. A mile in length as it is,it was to have gone on to a junction with vacant GoatIsla
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