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 BAY AND UPPER COAST COUNTIES 131 The beach at Pescadero, which is on the pro- jected line of the Ocean Shore Railroad (station, 12th and Mission Sts., San Francisco), is a mu- seum of sea-mosses ; here, too, are found wonderful pebbles, scintillant with the lights of agate, car- nelian and opal. This shore railway, which will eventually go through to Santa Cruz by way of the renowned grove of redwoods, carries one 30 miles from San Francisco to Half Moon Bay in full sight of the ocean and its crag-bound coast, passing through several favourite summer resorts, Salada Beach, Rockaway, Montara, Moss Beach, Princeton and Granada, and continuing to Tunitas (88 m.). Beyond San Mateo is Menlo Park, where, on the old Flood estate, is now installed the Dairy Col- lege of the University of California. Redwood City is the county seat. At Palo Alto (30 m. south-east of San Francisco), we leave the train and go by electric car to Leland Stanford Jr. Uni- versity, erected on an estate of nearly 9000 acres in the Santa Clara Valley to keep green the mem- ory of Senator Stanford's heir and namesake. The buildings, nearly all of which have been re- stored since the disaster of 1906, are arranged about a series of quadrangles. In the centre of the red-roofed pile of buff sandstone rises the tower of the chapel upon which Mrs. Stanford