By the Golden Gate by Joseph Carey
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and then around Angel Island and Alcatraz strongly fortified, a
distance altogether of forty miles. But now on the first morning, veiled partly with clouds, San Francisco rises on the view, that city of so many memories by the waters of the Pacific, where many a one has been wrecked in body and soul as well as in fortune, while others have grown rich and have led useful lives. Yes, it is San Francisco at last! And while it looms upon the view with its varied landscape, its hills and towered buildings, I am reminded of another October morning when I first saw Constantinople, when old Stamboul with its Seraglio Point, and Galata with its tower, and Pera on the heights above, and Yildiz to the east, and Scutari across the Bosphorus, all were revealed gradually as the mists rolled away. So the Golden City of the West is disclosed to view as the shadows disappear and the clouds break and flee away and the morning sun hastening across the lofty Sierras gilds the homes of the rich and poor alike, and bathes water and land in beauty. There is another city on the shore of a tideless sea, and it will be the joyful morning of eternal life, when, earthly journeys ended, we walk over its golden streets! CHAPTER III SAN FRANCISCO AND THE DISCOVERY OF GOLD San Francisco--Her Hills--Her Landscapes--Population of Different Decades--The Flag on the Plaza in 1846--Yerba Buena its Earliest Name--First Englishman and First American to Build Here--The Palace Hotel--The Story of the Discovery of. Gold in 1848--Sutter and |
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