. The Chamber of commerce handbook for San Francisco, historical and descriptive; a guide for visitors .. . could spend the day enjoying its statuary, its Music Tem-ple, its Japanese Tea Garden, its manifold beauties of hill anddale, with its roads winding among lovely lakes where thewild ducks nest, its herds of elk and buffalo, and its hugeDutch windmills. At the west end of the Park is the sloop Gjoa, in whichAmundsen, discoverer of the South Pole, sailed through theNorthwest Passage. To the right as you emerge from the west end of the Parkis San Franciscos far-famed Cliff House. Beyond, up
. The Chamber of commerce handbook for San Francisco, historical and descriptive; a guide for visitors .. . could spend the day enjoying its statuary, its Music Tem-ple, its Japanese Tea Garden, its manifold beauties of hill anddale, with its roads winding among lovely lakes where thewild ducks nest, its herds of elk and buffalo, and its hugeDutch windmills. At the west end of the Park is the sloop Gjoa, in whichAmundsen, discoverer of the South Pole, sailed through theNorthwest Passage. To the right as you emerge from the west end of the Parkis San Franciscos far-famed Cliff House. Beyond, up thehill, are the great Sutro Baths, and the Sutro Gardens, whichthe public is privileged to enter and enjoy—afoot. Run down the Great Highway southward, within sight ofthe booming surf of the Pacific for about three miles to SloatBoulevard, and then turn east, passing, on your right the LakeMerced lands of the Spring Valley Water Company. A short distance beyond, you come to the neighborhood ofthree of San Franciscos newly developed residence districts: Automobiling 319 jjr»£^5Xj^5*j-*j» •,11 i. THREE MILES OF BEACH; FROM THE CLIFF HOUSE. Ingleside Terraces, Forest Hill and 5/. Francis Wood, beau-tified with contoured streets, parked walks, ornamental vasesand columns, and parks with pretty fountains, in the highestart of the modern landscape engineer. Take Corbett avenue, windmg up the heights to the eastface of Tmn Peal^s, over 900 feet high. The view from thispoint is marvelous. The whole amphitheater of the Bay ap-pears, with the city sloping downward before you. Marketstreet running direct to the water front, islands, shipping, theencircling hills, and Tamalpais rising like Vesuvius to com-plete a scene far surpassing in beauty the famed bay of Naples. If the traveler has a few days he should by all means makethe trip to the top of Twin Peaks in the evening and lookupon the myriad lights of the city spreading down the slopesbefore him. From the top of Twin Peaks, d
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