Romantic California
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[162] THE FARALLONES THE FARALLONES A S you stand upon the bluffs overlooking the J \ Pacific, or sit on the upper terrace at the -*• ^ Cliff House on a very clear day, you can faintly descry, thirty miles to seaward, just peeping above the edge of the horizon, like a fleet, hull down, of giant galleons with all sail set, a group of islands, bathed in ambient atmosphere, evanescent as dreams : the Farallones.
To my boyish mind their name originated in the fact that they were "far alone*' out up...on the sea, for not till much later did I ever hear their original and high-sounding appellation: "Los Farallones de los Frayles. " Their remotenes, their inaccessibility made a deep impression upon me, and they became a sort of land of romance, peopled, perhaps, with pirates, hung out there between sea and sky, with their reefs [165] ROMANTIC CALIFORNIA and rocks, perilous to mariners, awaiting the mer- chantman homeward bound, freighted with the silks and spices of the Orient.
These boyish dreams had vanished before I came to know the islands at closer range.
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
[162] THE FARALLONES THE FARALLONES A S you stand upon the bluffs overlooking the J \ Pacific, or sit on the upper terrace at the -*• ^ Cliff House on a very clear day, you can faintly descry, thirty miles to seaward, just peeping above the edge of the horizon, like a fleet, hull down, of giant galleons with all sail set, a group of islands, bathed in ambient atmosphere, evanescent as dreams : the Farallones.
To my boyish mind their name originated in the fact that they were "far alone*' out up...on the sea, for not till much later did I ever hear their original and high-sounding appellation: "Los Farallones de los Frayles. " Their remotenes, their inaccessibility made a deep impression upon me, and they became a sort of land of romance, peopled, perhaps, with pirates, hung out there between sea and sky, with their reefs [165] ROMANTIC CALIFORNIA and rocks, perilous to mariners, awaiting the mer- chantman homeward bound, freighted with the silks and spices of the Orient.
These boyish dreams had vanished before I came to know the islands at closer range.
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