Title:
Arriving in San Francisco (1879)

Author:
Robert Louis Stevenson

Publisher:
Unknown

Place:
San Francisco Bay in San Francisco

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In 1879, the Scottish author Robert Louis Stevenson embarked on a strenuous journey half-way around the world to San Francisco, to meet the woman who was to become his wife. In a short text he described his feelings when he finally arrived to Oakland and took the ferry across the bay to San Francisco.

According to essay writers...the next day before dawn we were lying to upon the Oakland side of San Francisco Bay. The day was breaking as we crossed the ferry; the fog was rising over the citied hills of San Francisco; the bay was perfect - not a ripple, scarce a stain, upon its blue expanse; everything was waiting, breathless, for the sun. A spot of cloudy gold lit first upon the head of Tamalpais, and then widened downward on its shapely shoulder; the air seemed to awaken, and began to sparkle; and suddenly

   "The tall hills Titan discovered,"

and the city of San Francisco, and the bay of gold and corn were lit from end to end with summer daylight.