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Father Crespi , with the Portolá land expedition up the 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 ...
Father Crespi , with the Portolá land expedition up the 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 ...
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Great or small , he could thenceforth touch that spot of land and its people with blessings . The place and the nature of his own blessedness were of no importance . So Saint Patrick was summoned from green Ireland to cast an eye on a ...
Great or small , he could thenceforth touch that spot of land and its people with blessings . The place and the nature of his own blessedness were of no importance . So Saint Patrick was summoned from green Ireland to cast an eye on a ...
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It was not certainly discovered until 1769 , and then by Portolá from the land side . Anza , founding a presidio and a mission on the bay in 1776 , commented on the almost nightly fogs . For the explorations by sea and land ...
It was not certainly discovered until 1769 , and then by Portolá from the land side . Anza , founding a presidio and a mission on the bay in 1776 , commented on the almost nightly fogs . For the explorations by sea and land ...
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Something about Swans | 3 |
The Pleasures of Seconds | 21 |
Listening | 37 |
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| Title | Something about Swans: Essays |
| Author | Madeleine Doran |
| Edition | illustrated |
| Publisher | University of Wisconsin Press, 1973 |
| Original from | the University of California |
| Digitized | 30 May 2008 |
| ISBN | 0299061701, 9780299061708 |
| Length | 118 pages |
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