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preparations had been made
for it, and its facilities might
have proven a hundred times
better than those of the peninsula. It would not even go over
to Richardson's bay, where the pro-
-tection is so absolute, the water
so still, the land so near, and
the sand dunes so far off. It
stayed, and anchored off a
little shallow cove, in front of
a miserable hamlet, and con-
-fronted by sand-hills toward the
left, and inaccessible lights on the
right, and with Yerba Buena Island
pushing up in the rear.

An inland city then must