The Presidio looks like a settlement in itself, and is very picturesque.
I will not soon forget the beautiful, balmy afternoon, when I walked through the grounds on my way to the hills above the ocean.

Here everything was suggestive of forethought, of care, of order, of dignity.

The Reservation stretched out on every hand and over to the shore of the Bay northward where it has a water frontage of at least a mile and a half.

In all its area it embraces a landscape, varied and undulating, of one thousand, five hundred and forty-two acres.

It is a noble park in itself and well may the nation be proud of it.