Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: HISTORY OF M COUNTY, CALIFORNIA. OKOIiRAPHICAl. SITUATION ASI A HE A? DERIVATION OF NAME?T.OPOCRAPHY?(iEOLOUV MATOURAPIIY?ETC., ETC. Maiux County is bounded on the south by the Pacific ocean ami the Golden Gate; on the east by the Bay of Han Francisco and San Pablo bay; on the north by Sonoma county, and on the west by the Pacific ocean; in short- is the peninsula lying between San Pablo bay and the ocean, its extreme southern portion, Point Boiiita, forming the outer headland to the entrance k the world-renowned Golden Gate. The county comprises about six hundred square miles, or nearly four hundred thousand acres, one hundred and seventy-five thousand of which are enclosed, while only about twenty-five thousand are under cultivation. The population is estimated at five thousand. The immense advantages of location, which,the county possesses, may lie at once observed on reference to a map of the State. Its inner shores are washed by the magnificent bays of San Francisco and San Pablo, at the entrance to the former of which lies that arm of the sea known as Richardson's bay, while on the sea coast are the advantageous inlets of Drake's and Tomales bays. The first of these is situated to the south of Point Reyes and thirty miles north of the Golden Gate. It is of no great importance, except as being the place where the great English navigator, whose name it bears, landed. It ia sometimes called Jack's harljor, a name given to it by the fishermen, who resort there to follow their vocation. The last-named is forty-five miles north of San Francisco, in latitude thirty-eight degrees, and fifteen minutes. It ia formed by an inlet of the Pacific ocean, which here penetrates the Coast Range about sixteen miles nearly te the center of the county, averaging about a mile and a quar...