The Pacific coast scenic tour, from southern California to Alaska, the Canadian Pacific railway, Yellowstone Park and the Grand Cañon (1890) (14580174040)

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Title: The Pacific coast scenic tour, from southern California to Alaska, the Canadian Pacific railway, Yellowstone Park and the Grand Cañon
Year: 1890 (1890s)
Authors: Finck, Henry Theophilus, 1854-1926
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Publisher: New York, C. Scribner's Sons
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation



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rnia, and should be missed byno tourist; for it gives him superb views of the city fromseveral hills, and of the bay studded with pretty islands,and finally takes him to the very edge of the GoldenGate, where he can see the ships and steamers enteringor departing for China, Japan, Australia, and everyport of Europe and America. The road continuouslyskirts the shore, being dug or blasted out of the precijD-itous hill-sides; and directly below us are the Pacificbreakers blindly dashing themselves into foam and sprayon the rocks. The terminus is the Cliff House, with its seal rocks, densely inhabited by the sea-lions, whichhave been too often described to call for more thanmention. There are countless seal rocks between SanDiego and Sitka, but none so near a large city as these,which may be looked on as a free aquarium and an addi-tion to the Golden Gate Park. Thej^ would have longsince been depopulated were they not protected by law.The fishermen clamor for a repeal of this law, because
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SAN FRANCISCO AND CHINATOWN. Ill the seals kill so many salmon bound for the SacramentoRiver at the other end of the bay; but the gain of a fewhundred fishermen would be the loss of three hundredand fifty thousand San Franciscans. As well let the cityfathers turn over the Golden Gate Park to the vegeta-ble gardeners. It takes up many acres which might beplanted with useful cabbages and onions, — enough toenrich quite a number of gardeners ; for it is three mileslong and half a mile wide, containing one hundred andfifty acres more than the Central Park in New York.Besides, it contains poison-oak, and is so unimprovedin part, that only a few years ago a wildcat was killedin it. Therefore, down with the Park! let it be ex-terminated, together with the useless, harshly barking,salmon-eating seals! No doubt more people have had their first glimpse ofthe illimitable Pacific at the Cliff House than from allother places on the Californian Coast; and it is a mostdelightful spot to spend a fe