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This historic book may have numerous typos, missing text, images, or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1856. Not illustrated. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER XXXIX. California is well represented, in many of its features, by its metropolis. The rapid growth, the incongruous character, the extremes of condition, the inextinguishable energy, the material luxury, and the spiritual coarseness-- the pretension and the ignorance which are observable in San Francisco, characterize the state. The city is an epitome of the state. But it has also its individual features, unlike those of any other city on the continent, if not on the globe. As a maritime city, it has no peer. In her sixth year, her merchant navy includes, on almost any day, more magnificent vessels than are to be found in any other harbor on the continent, New York, excepted. No American ship can be considered as fairly entered on the commercial race-ground, that has not tried her speed to San Francisco, nor any builder's triumph complete until she has awarded him her verdict. And no harbor affords a finer picture than ours on a beautiful morning--the tall clipper masts piercing the radiant blue skies; the huge, sullen steamers lying in black silence at the wharves; half a dozen vessels dropping down to the Golden Gate, their white sails bearing them slowly on, as do the half-folded wings of a great sea-bird about to rise from his liquid bed. Small boats are glancing about the still waters in all directions, in which every variety of color, countenance, and costume are to be seen--the half-wild, picturesque-looking Malay, the long-tailed Chinaman, the compact, shaven Swede, the sturdy Briton, and the nonchalant Yankee, lord and host of all, whose imperturbable face, as he looks about on his numerous guests, says to them, " This California is a great ' location, ' and, I calculate, about the smartest people in the world have got hold of it." Grea...


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781150208089
  • Publisher: General Books
  • Publisher Imprint: General Books
  • Height: 246 mm
  • No of Pages: 92
  • Spine Width: 5 mm
  • Width: 189 mm
  • ISBN-10: 1150208082
  • Publisher Date: 01 Jan 2012
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Weight: 181 gr


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