. To California and back;. nnuated and inhis second childhood is appeased with a rattle. It is a city of fair aspect, undulating from thewaters edge, Mhere children play upon the broadsands and sea-lions clamber over jutting rocks, toheights of nearly a thousand feet. Overlooking thesands and the seal-rocks from a considerable bluff isthe Cliff House resort, and towering above that is themagnificent sky-battlement known as Sutro Heights—a private property open to the public and embel-lished by landscape gardens and statuary. Othersights and scenes are the Golden Gate, the park ofthe same name—
. To California and back;. nnuated and inhis second childhood is appeased with a rattle. It is a city of fair aspect, undulating from thewaters edge, Mhere children play upon the broadsands and sea-lions clamber over jutting rocks, toheights of nearly a thousand feet. Overlooking thesands and the seal-rocks from a considerable bluff isthe Cliff House resort, and towering above that is themagnificent sky-battlement known as Sutro Heights—a private property open to the public and embel-lished by landscape gardens and statuary. Othersights and scenes are the Golden Gate, the park ofthe same name—a thousand acres of familiar and raretrees, shrubs and flowers—the largest mint in theworld, not a few magnificent public buildings, innu-merable phases of active commerce, and the con-trasting life of races representing nearly every nationof the world. CHINATOWN. A few steps from your hotel, at the turn of a cor-ner, you come at once upon the city of the is night, and under the soft glow of paper lanterns. A STREET IN CHINATOWN. 99
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