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Page 58
... coast from San Diego to San Francisco in 1769 and an associate of Father Serra for many years in the founding of the chain of missions , is said to have bestowed more names on the map of California than any other single person . One ...
... coast from San Diego to San Francisco in 1769 and an associate of Father Serra for many years in the founding of the chain of missions , is said to have bestowed more names on the map of California than any other single person . One ...
Page 93
... coast , fog has a weight of associations that cannot be easily shed . It belongs with the night sound of fog - horns on the bay , mournful , faintly yet pleasurably ominous ; the startlingly near sound of unseen bell- buoys , impersonal ...
... coast , fog has a weight of associations that cannot be easily shed . It belongs with the night sound of fog - horns on the bay , mournful , faintly yet pleasurably ominous ; the startlingly near sound of unseen bell- buoys , impersonal ...
Page 94
... Coast Range . It fills the bowl of shore and mesa , and spills over the rim of the mountains , but its momen- tum has been checked . A dweller on the lee side watches the crest of it a stilled breaker that holds its curve without ...
... Coast Range . It fills the bowl of shore and mesa , and spills over the rim of the mountains , but its momen- tum has been checked . A dweller on the lee side watches the crest of it a stilled breaker that holds its curve without ...
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