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The University of California was founded in 1868, It is one of the 

 largest State universities in America, including besides the regular 

 collegiate and postgraduate departments at Berkeley the Lick 

 Observatory, on Mount Hamilton; colleges of law^ art; dentistry, 

 pharmacy, etc., in San Francisco; the Scripps Institution for Biologi- 

 cal Research, at La Jolla, near San Diego; and other laboratories for 

 special studies elsewhere. It is a coeducational institution and had a 

 total enrollment for 1914-15, not including that of the summer 

 school, of 6/202. The members of the faculty and other officers of 

 administration and instruction number 890. The university build- 

 higs at Berkeley are beautifully situated and have a broad outlook 

 over San Francisco Bay. Their position can readily be identified 

 from the train by the tall clock tower. Another prominent group 

 of buildings occupying a similar site just south of the university 

 grounds is that of the California School for the Deaf and the Blind. 



Just before reaching Oakland (Sixteenth Street station) the train 

 passes SheU ^lound Park. The mound, which is about 250 feet long 

 and 27 feet high, is on the shore of tlie bay close to the right side 

 of tlie track. It is composed of loose soil mixed with an immense 

 number of shells of clams, oysters, abalones, and other shellfish 

 gathered for food by the prehistoric inhabitants of the region and 

 eaten on this spot. The discarded shells, gradually accumulatir 



built up the mound. 



numerous 



im 



miles of San Francisco. The mound 



largest, and from excavations in it a great number of crude stone, 

 shell, and bone implements and ornaments have been obtained. The 

 mounds evidently mark the sites of camps or villages that were 

 inhabited during long periods, for the accumulation of such refuse 

 could not have been very rapid. Archeolo 

 mound say that it must have been the site of an Indian village over 

 a thousand years ago, and that it was probably inhabited almost 



continuously to about the time wheu the Spaniards first entered 



California. 



to 



first 



h miles from 



the business center of the city. Oakland 



Alameda County and lies on the eastern 



Oakland. shore of San Francisco Bay directly opposite San 



Elevation 12 feet. FraUcisCO , 



Population 150,174. 



from 



Seattle 



which originally covered the site. 



im 



fine 



miles of \rater front. Visitors to Oakland slioul 



electric cars to Piedmont, from which a fine view may be had of San 



Francisco, the bay, and the Golden Gate. This view is especially good 



