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right instant he would have seen the whole row of 

 cypresses apparently file past, and the rose garden 

 go with them, giving place to some raspberry bushes. 

 At the neighboring Shatter Ranch the earth yawned 

 in a corral where the men were engaged in milking 

 cows, one of which was engulfed, a pathetic tail 

 only indicating her fate, from which the superstitious 

 Portuguese dairymen made no attempt to rescue 

 her. 



On BoKnas Bay the pretty Flagstaff Inn was 

 ca P i ze d into the water and completely wrecked. 



F alley From there to Mussel Rock, southwest of San 

 Francisco, the rift lies under the sea four miles from 

 the Golden Gate. At Mussel Rock the cliff was torn 

 off, carrying down with it 4000 feet of newly graded 

 railroad. In the narrow valley of San Andreas, 

 holding the three great reservoirs of Crystal Springs 

 and San Andreas, the water mains were all wrecked, 

 though the dam separating the two (Crystal Springs) 

 lakes across the fault was so well built that the visible 

 crack dodged it by passing around along the bank at 

 its side and then returning to the former line of 

 direction. 



From the Springs to Monte Bello, a distance of 

 about eight miles, devastation in the fertile valley of 



Portoid Portola consisted of wrecked houses and the shifting 

 of line fences, both characteristic over the whole 

 course. In the hills to the southward along Los 

 Gatos Creek, roads were torn up and landslides 

 thrown down. On the Feely Ranch, some ten acres 

 of slipping land carried a herd of cattle into the 

 creek. 



The long railway tunnel cutting under the saddle 

 from Wrights to Laurel was entirely wrecked, as was 



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