Note 161 — Chapter II
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[The coast-survey authorities have usually favored San Francisco. This was the opinion of Alexander Forbes in his California, 1839, where he gives (p. 127) an interesting view of the bay before commerce had marked it. Dr. Stillman, in the Overland Monthly (October, 1868, March, 1869), and later in his Seeking the Golden Fleece (p. 295), has advocated San Francisco. S. G. Drake, in the American Historical Record, August, 1874, took the same view.