Gaviota Pass is an important gap in the Santa Inez range.
Every one who has crossed the bay of San Francisco in the winter season must have rejoiced in the sight of the flying convoy of those beautiful creatures, the gaviotas, by which each ferry-boat is accompanied.
Goleta (schooner), is the name of a village in Santa Bárbara County, seven miles west of Santa Bárbara.
Guadalupe (a Christian name). The town is near the northern border of Santa Bárbara County.
Lompoc is one of the names of Indian villages taken from the mission archives. It is situated fifty miles northwest of Santa Bárbara, on the Southern Pacific Railroad.
Nojoqui, in Santa Bárbara County, was presumably the name of an Indian village.
Los Olivos (the olives), is in Santa Bárbara County, on the Coast Line Railroad.
La Piedra Pintada (the painted rock), is about eighty miles from Santa Bárbara. Here there was a stone wigwam, forty or fifty yards in diameter, whose walls were covered with paintings in the form of halos and circles, with radiations from the center.—(History of Santa Bárbara County.)
Punta Gorda (fat or broad point), is one of the points of land running into the sea from the Santa Bárbara Coast. Its name indicates its shape.