in warm yellowish-green surges round Tamalpais,
deepening into purple as they rise in graceful alpine
outline and mingle with the clouds. Opposite this
bank the waters of the bay and ocean are separated
by a ridge of argillaceous sandstone, severed at the
Golden Gate so as to form a peninsula some six miles
at the northern end, and broadening into open high-
lands toward the south. Upon these so lately sand-
blown hills, freckled with tough, wind-defying
shrubbery, beneath whose branches quail and rabbits
loved to hide, and birds and rivulets sana* too-ether, is
now being planted the commercial metropolis of the
Farthest West; while all around this favored bay,
blustering in its strength and radiant in its beauty,
and already white with the sails of every ocean, in-
dustries are springing up, towns and cities are being
built, and a race of men and women developing which
some clay will make the nations marvel. The bay of
Kieselarke has been called golden because of its shin-
ing sands; but far more proper may our beautiful
sheet which from the first so gladdened the hearts of
the followers of St Francis rejoice in that name, for
not only are its shores golden, but its hills and skies,
its commerce and its industries, its towns and people
are orolden.
o
Fair California ! clad in verdant spring vesture or resting in arid robes under a metallic sky ; voluptuous in thy half-tropic bed, in thy sunlit valley warmed with the glow of bronze and rosy lustre, redolent with wild flowers, and billowy with undulating parks and smooth corruoated mounds and sWellinof heio-hts, with wavmg grass and fragrance-breathing forests, capti- vating the mhid, and ravishing the senses with thy bewitching charms, and smiling plenty in alternate seasons of refreshing rains and restful dryness; with thy lofty snow-capped peaks, and metal-veined Sierra, and amethystine smooth-browed hills bathed hi purple mists and musical with leaping streamlets and so
