TIBURÓN
Tiburón (shark), is on the Marin County shore, opposite San Francisco. It has been facetiously suggested that this name may have been derived from “sharks” of the land variety, but it probably came from some story connected with those of the sea.
SAN RAFAEL
Even in this land, so prodigal with its flowers from its northern to its southern borders, San Rafael, the county-seat of Marin County, fifteen miles north of San Francisco, is notable for the exceeding beauty of its gardens, where the lily and the rose bloom from year’s end to year’s end.
THE MISSION OF SAN RAFAEL, FOUNDED IN 1817.
“ ... where the lily and the rose bloom from year’s end to year’s end.”