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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Wrecker by Stevenson & Osbourne: kind of slum, being the habitat of the mere millionnaire. There
they dwell upon the hill-top, high raised above man's clamour,
and the trade-wind blows between their palaces about deserted
streets.
But San Francisco is not herself only. She is not only the most
interesting city in the Union, and the hugest smelting-pot of
races and the precious metals. She keeps, besides, the doors of
the Pacific, and is the port of entry to another world and an
earlier epoch in man's history. Nowhere else shall you observe
(in the ancient phrase) so many tall ships as here convene from
round the Horn, from China, from Sydney, and the Indies; but
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