History of Mendocino County, California : comprising its geography, geology, topography, climatography, springs and timber . tseemed endowed with intelligence and definite purpose. The first plungeshe made her foremast was carried away, and the second time she dashedinto the hole the main mast was snapped like a pipe-stem and the riggingcarried away, and upon the third attempt she dashed directly into the hole,and there was never a trace of any kind of her discovered afterwards. Howfar this hole extends into the rock is a mystery, but it is known to extendfor some distance, as parties have pas
History of Mendocino County, California : comprising its geography, geology, topography, climatography, springs and timber . tseemed endowed with intelligence and definite purpose. The first plungeshe made her foremast was carried away, and the second time she dashedinto the hole the main mast was snapped like a pipe-stem and the riggingcarried away, and upon the third attempt she dashed directly into the hole,and there was never a trace of any kind of her discovered afterwards. Howfar this hole extends into the rock is a mystery, but it is known to extendfor some distance, as parties have passed into it as far as feasible for thetides. One sailor went into the hole with the vessel, the others on boanl 440 HISTORY OF MENDOCINO COUNTY, CALIFORNIA. having jumped overboard were picked up out of the surf and saved. Thesteamer Fideleter went ashore in 187-5, at Cuffeys Cove, and was a totalwreck. The ports and harbors are not at all secure along the Mendocinocoast, and the great number of small crafts which ply in the lumber trademake it a matter of no wonderment that scores of vessels have been dashedto CALPELLA TOWNSHIP. CALPELLA. Geography.—Calpella township is bounded on the north by Little Lakeand Round Valley townships; on the east by Lake county; on the south byUkiah and Anderson townships; and on the west by Big River boundary lines are very crooked, following the sinuosities of mountainchains and valleys. There are no streams of any importance in the town-ship, although the Russian river has its source in the mountains of thistownship. Topography.—This township presents very much the same topographicalfeatures of the other townships in Mendocino county, except, that possibly,the valleys are a little more extensive than in some of the others. TheRussian River valley, which passes up northward through the west center ofit, is quite broad and fertile. In the eastern portion of the township, arethe Redwood, Potter, Walker, and Coyote valley
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