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Let us try the latter method. We start in a little steamboat at eleven in the forenoon, thus enabling us to reach the base of the mountain before sunset. In a small, slow boat, with the tides against us, we have ample opportunity to study and enjoy the scenery around the bay. We have passed the swell of the Golden Gate and are seeing Alcatraz island grow dim behind us. On our left, as we steam up the bay, is Tamalpais, our jewel. One of these days I hope to scale it and send you a report of the... splendid waterscape it commands. For on one side the ocean chafes its rugged outworks; on the other side its canons subside into gentle slopes that are tenderly bathed by the pulsations of the Bay. The mountain rises nearly 3000 feet above the sea and supports a noble peak. But its sides are torn with such channels as we seldom see in the New Hamp- shire heights. In studying this hill vour eyes must [126] A EULOGIST OF CALIFORNIA SCENERY get used to wrinkles that would crimp Mt. Wash- ington so that his best friends would not know him.
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