. California; an intimate history. and desirous to be among the first to reap the benefit of arapidly increasing population, conceived a subtle and far-sighted scheme. They projected a town on the shores ofSan Pablo Bay, a continuation, in the north, of San Fran-cisco Bay, to be called the City of Santa Francisca, nomi-nally as a marital compliment on the part of the general,really because they knew that a city so identified withthe famous Bay of San Francisco would be a natural baitboth for settlers and sea-craft, becoming in the course ofa few years the metropolis of the future state. Fortun
. California; an intimate history. and desirous to be among the first to reap the benefit of arapidly increasing population, conceived a subtle and far-sighted scheme. They projected a town on the shores ofSan Pablo Bay, a continuation, in the north, of San Fran-cisco Bay, to be called the City of Santa Francisca, nomi-nally as a marital compliment on the part of the general,really because they knew that a city so identified withthe famous Bay of San Francisco would be a natural baitboth for settlers and sea-craft, becoming in the course ofa few years the metropolis of the future state. Fortunately, Bartletts mind w^orked as quickly andastutely as theirs. Before they had time to record thetitle of their town he changed the name of his from YerbaBuena to San Francisco, publishing the ordinance in the ^ Named for Lieutenant afterward General Beale, who distinguished him-self during the final war with the Califomians. He the father ofTruxtun Beale, a well-known citizen of San Francisco and mentioned iriappendix. 136. SACRAMENTO, CALIFORNIA l8,SO
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