Old Mexico and her lost provinces; a journey in Mexico, southern California, and Arizona, by way of Cuba . to the northward. It may well bebelieved that the doings on these occasions are as fantas-tic and amusing as the merry inventions of a couple ofhundred bright social spirits can make them. III. A population of three hundred thousand souls is notextraordinary now, as populations go, but there are cer-tain things which make San Francisco cosmopolitan be-yond its actual size. An entirely new commercial situa-tion gives rise to a new milieic. San Francisco facestoward Asia, the great English-
Old Mexico and her lost provinces; a journey in Mexico, southern California, and Arizona, by way of Cuba . to the northward. It may well bebelieved that the doings on these occasions are as fantas-tic and amusing as the merry inventions of a couple ofhundred bright social spirits can make them. III. A population of three hundred thousand souls is notextraordinary now, as populations go, but there are cer-tain things which make San Francisco cosmopolitan be-yond its actual size. An entirely new commercial situa-tion gives rise to a new milieic. San Francisco facestoward Asia, the great English-speaking colonies ofOceanica, and the islands of the sea, as New York facesEurope, It enjoys already a trade with the Orientamounting to ten millions per annum in imports andeight millions in exports. The possibilities of this trade,extended among the teeming populations in the cradleof the human race, seem almost limitless. A way will befound sooner or later out of the imbroglio into which ourinexperience has plunged us on the Chinese question, andcommunication will flow unimpeded. In countries sepa-. high jinks of the bohkmian cj-Lb among the big treks. SAJV FRANCISCO. 315 rated by water, and demanding each otliers productions,cities arise at tlie places of transfer, and proportioned toits vohinie; and for all this San Francisco has one of themost remarkable of situations. The Oriental trade is but a small item in the total. Ithas ships, besides those bound for the Eastern and Euro-pean ports, going out to the British and Russian posses-sions in the North, Mexico, Central and South Amer-ica, Tahiti, Feejee, Manila, the Sandwich and FriendlyIslands—to all those far-off points in the South Pacificwhich now in their turn promise to shine with the lightof civilization and become powers of the earth. Coals are burned at firesides—not of the most desira-ble quality, it must be confessed—which come from thecoast once characterized by the poet in the line— The wolfs long howl
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