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San Francisco, California, Date Unknown Photograph by James L.
Stanfield "Magic curtain of fog envelops the...Golden Gate Bridge on an
autumn afternoon. The south tower was sunk 35 feet (11 meters) deep
into bedrock, a next-to-impossible feat because of the furious currents
in this strait. Cables expand and contract with changing temperature
and traffic load. Approaching ships are assured a minimum clearance of
220 feet (67 meters) in the main channel beneath the span. A tanker
bearing crude oilR12;the area&#039s largest importR12;slips into the
bay, which is still, as Richard Henry Dana wrote in 1859, &#039emporium
of a new world, the awakened Pacific.&#039"

(Text and photograph from "San Francisco Bay, the Westward Gate,"
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