. The call of the West -letters from British Columbia . guilty to a little disappointmentat the appearance of the Golden Gate; I hadexpected something more impressive, more loftyheights on each side, but then I suppose one mustsee it from the east at sunset to realize its truebeauty. Passing the Presidio Military Reserve on theright, and the site of the Panama Pacific Ex-position, as the ship turns round to the right, thegreat city gradually comes into view, an innumer-able array of wharves projecting out along milesof shoreline, the central point and focus of thewhole city being the imposing
. The call of the West -letters from British Columbia . guilty to a little disappointmentat the appearance of the Golden Gate; I hadexpected something more impressive, more loftyheights on each side, but then I suppose one mustsee it from the east at sunset to realize its truebeauty. Passing the Presidio Military Reserve on theright, and the site of the Panama Pacific Ex-position, as the ship turns round to the right, thegreat city gradually comes into view, an innumer-able array of wharves projecting out along milesof shoreline, the central point and focus of thewhole city being the imposing tower of the FerryBuilding, from whence ferries run at short intervalsall day to Oakland, Berkeley, Alameda, and othertrans-bay points, for a large portion of thebusiness population of Frisco lives across thebay. It seems as if one would never cease turningto, the right, for, curiously enough, San Francisco,like Cadiz (which it very much resembles ingeographical situation, but on a larger scale), facesdue east, so that, after entering the harbour from.
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