Norwich bulletin., 1921-06-10
THE pncIElr COAST

With the awakening of the Far East, the shifting of world interest to the Pacific, and the rapid growth of it's commerce the western rim of the United States where it touches the vastest of the worlds oceans is becom- ing one of the country's most import ant boundaries" says a bulletin issued by the Washington, D. c. headquarters of the National Geographic Society.
 This ripping line of Pacific surf marks the end of the great Aryan mil grafton, which began ages ago in some mysterious, unknown land of central Asia, surged through the deep valleys of the Himalayas. and has since pour- ed ever eastward, making the greater part of the worlds history as it went. Across the boundary of white coloni- zation the yellow people of the East have shown themselves ready to flow in a counter current, making compli- cated racial problems and giving the western boundary an ethnic importance which none of the other three bound aries possesses.
 For centuries after the discovery of the Atlantic coast of America, even for centuries after Balboa looked up- on the Pacific at Panama and after his compatriots sailed ships across it's vast expanse, the Pacific coast of what is now known as the United States, remained practically unknown. Cabrillo Spanish navigator, it is true, enter ed San Diego Bay near the present Mexican border in 1542 and his exped- ition later sailed north as far as the bgi bulge in the coast line. But the two priceless features of the Pacific coast were missed; San Francisco Bay one of the greatest safest and best of the harbors of the world; and the entrance to Puget Sound, where land locked Seattle and a group of other fine harbors now handle large part of the commerce between Amercia and the Orient.
 This failure of early navigators to find San Francisco Bay, though many of them passed up and down the coast and the Spanish even made a special effort to discover a satisfactory harbor constitutes one of the mysteries of the Pacific seaboard. Francis Drake is SUD- posed to have anchored in Bodego Bay about 40 miles northwest of San Fran 1 cisco, and numerous other explorers visited the tiny Drake's Bay only thirty miles northwest of the Golden Gate. i and the F'arralone islands, an equal | distance due west of the entrance to i the great bay was first sighted from the land in 1769, more than two hun- dred years after the Spaniards began l their search for a Pacific coast harbor and it was six years when the first ship sailed through the Golden Gate.
 "The Pacific ocast of the United States Is markedly different from the Atlantic coast, especially that part ot the latter south of Massachusetts, with its relatively low sandy shores and its outlying bulwark of sand islands and
 sand spits. San Diego Bay, only ter miles north of the Mexican border, if the only bay of major importance or
 the Pacific coast of the United State.
 land-locked by sand spit. Point xoms
 forming the northern boundary of Sar
 Diego Bay, however, Is a ridge severa
 hundred feet high, and from thereup.
 ward to Canada with only a few
 imles of narrow lowlands between tn,
 sea and the hills or mountains by tn,
 way of exception, the coast Is bolt
 and rugged. Parts of it are what geo
 logists call a drowned coast, wher,
 mountains have sunk so that the wat
 CT meets their steep slopes. Parts ar,
 'uplifted coasts where mountains ono
 under the sea have partly emerged
 and their slopes are till lapped by tn
 wavesI.
 ] 'It is the mountanods and bold char
 acter of the Pacific coast which set 1