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Title: The Pacific tourist
Year: 1876 (1870s)
Authors: Williams, Henry T Shearer, Frederick E
Subjects: Union Pacific Railroad Company Central Pacific Railroad Company Railroad travel Railroad travel Railroad travel
Publisher: New York : H.T. Williams
Contributing Library: San Francisco Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: San Francisco Public Library

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their whole surfacestudded with them, to tin- great comfort of theirguests, and equal defacement of their externalappearance. San Francisco is called the BayCity. It might well be named the bay-win-dow city. The mildness of the climate and theinstinctive craving for sunshine, are considera-tions which will always make bay-windows adesirable and a favorite feature here. A stranger will observe here the great numberof restaurants autt furnished lodgings. A large ferred payment. Most of the uniformly builtblocks of detached houses in the city, were builtby them. They always built detached houses,which are safer in case of fires. A great conflagration may overtake any city,luit this is more secure than its wooden appear-ance indicates. Owing to the dampness fromsummer fogs and winter rains, and the liabilityof injury by earthquakes, wood is the only desir-able material for dwellings. Nearly all used isthe seavnia, or redwood, so abundant in theCoast Range. It burns- very slowly, compared
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SCENES IN THE HARBOR OF SAN FRANCISCO. TME &&61FIG TQ&MIST. 267 with eastern woods, and the city has a very effi-cient steam fire department. The city cemeteries are yet west of the bestresidences, but agitation has already commencedlooking to au end of interments within city lim-its. Lone Mountain, an isolated mound with-in the Roman Catholic Cemetery and surmountedby a large cross, lately blown down, has long beena noted landmark and gives its name to the re-gion adjoining, which is devoted to buryinggrounds. South from Lone Mountain lies the GoldenGate Park, in which the city justly takes greatpride, and which is destined to become one ofthe most beautiful of city pleasure grounds inthe United States. It was a waste of sand onlyfive or six years since, but, by careful plantingof the yellow lupin, the sand is subdued, andby irrigation, grass-plats have been created, anda forest of trees brought rapidly forward. Thedrives are fine, and, on pleasant days, thousandsof carri

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