Excerpt from San Francisco and Thereabout There 1s a real need at the present day of a book on San Francisco which shall be simple and direct, giving a brief history of the city's romantic past and a just description of its present life, with the picturesque setting of bay and hills. It is needed not merely to introduce people at a distance to the American metrop olis of the Pacific, but also that the younger gene ration of native sons and daughters may not forget the exciting scenes which have been enacted here, and that they may be reminded of the enlarged life in which they are called to participate. In undertaking these brief essays I have tried to give a true picture of the city so far as the limited scope of the book permitted. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.