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BAY AND UPPER COAST COUNTIES 139 goats used to browse the mint herb, the yerba buena of the Spaniards ; now the buildings of a naval training-school gleam white on its sides. Off Tiburon, Angel Island narrows the channel which swells further north into San Pablo Bay. At Vallejo, passes are obtained for the Navy Yard on Mare Island. It is said that a white mare of General Vallejo having been thrown into the bay during a ferry-boat disaster, climbed upon this island, which was thereafter called Isla de la Yegua, Island of the Mare. Admiral Farragut supervised the original plan- ning of the Yard in 1854. His house, shaded by tall trees, is still there. The present command- ants live in a spacious residence of Colonial design. There are about 1600 employes in the naval construction and repair shops. The souvenirs about the grounds, the museum near the Admin- istration Building, and the venerable Independ- ence with its high wooden poop all teach a vivid lesson on the country's history. Napa St. Helena Calistoga Geysers and Lakes Sonoma. The Napa Valley electric road, which leaves from Vallejo, has come into being since the May day in 1880 when three travellers crossed " the con- tractions and expansions of that inland sea, the Bay of San Francisco," on their way to hoped-for