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Excerpt from Five Years Within the Golden Gate
It is now perceived that the principal part of the city faces the east. Opposite is a small town, on the other side of the bay, called Oakland - a very pleasant spot, with only a few houses yet built. The Americans, with a sort of passion for the grandific in all relating to themselves, call it a city. The site is delightful compared with that of San Francisco, and many citizens reside there, crossing the harbour to their business and returning. The distance by a ferry is about seven miles. It is yet farther to the south that the bay attains its extreme width. The position of the city of San Francisco itself is well sheltered from the storms seaward by a background of sand-hills, which take a peninsular form, nor can any site be better adapted for maritime purposes. It is in a northerly direction from the city, at a dis tance of many miles from the mouth of the harbour entrance above described, that the Sacramento river enters the bay by a delta of twenty-five miles in extent, formed by its junction with the San Joaquin and other streams. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
