"Rincon" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... performed in it, and in it the first capital trial by the Vigilance Committee held. I am taken down to the wharves, by antiquaries of a ten or twelve years' range, to identify the two points, now known as Clark's and Rincon, which formed the little cove of Yerba Buena, where we used to beach our boats,— now filled up and built upon. The island we called "Wood Island,'' where we spent the cold days and nights of December, in our launch, getting wood for our year's ...
— Two Years Before the Mast • Richard Henry Dana |
