Le famose missioni della California . InteriorSanta Barbara 52 le famose Missioni della California. 53 istruzioni da San Pietroburgo, essi presero possesso di theregion di Bodega Bay, stabilendo lì un posto di commercio di.their Fur Company, e una forte stazione militare che theychiamò Fort Ross. Dato che questo insediamento era sulla costa, e solo sessantacinque miglia, come la corvo vola, da San Francisco, si vedrà che le autorità spagnole hanno avuto una certa genuinecause per allarme. E il movimento di missione a nord di Sanfrancisco è considerato laici alcuni scrittori per essere stati iniziati, meno da moti spirituali

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The famous missions of California . InteriorSanta Barbara 52 The Famous Missions of California. 53 instructions from St. Petersburg, they took possession of theregion of Bodega Bay, establishing there a trading post of.their Fur Company, and a strong military station which theycalled Fort Ross. As this settlement was on the coast, andonly sixty-five miles, as the crow flies, from San Francisco, it will be seen that the Spanish authorities had some genuinecause for alarm. And the mission movement north of SanFrancisco is considered lay some writers to have been initiated, less from spiritual motives, than from the dread of continuedRussian aggression, and the hope of raising at least a slightbarrier against it. However this may be, the two missions werenever employed for defensive purposes; nor is it very clear thatthey could have been made of much practical service in caseof actual need.. Mission ofSan Luis Obispo 54 The Famous Missions of California. 55 X. SUCH, in briefest outline, is the story of the plantingof the twenty-one missions of Alta California. Thisstory, as we have seen, brings us down to the year1823. But by this time, as we follow the chronicles, our attention has already begun to be diverted from the forceswhich still made for growth and success to those which erelong were to co-operate for the complete undoing of the mis-sion system and the ruin of all its work. Perhaps it was in the nature of things (if one may venturehere to employ a phrase too often used out of mere idleness orignorance) that the undertaking which year by year had beencarried forward with so much energy and success, shouldafter a while come to a standstill; and the commonest obser-vation of life will suffice to remind us that when progressceases, retrogression is almost certain to set in. The im-mense zeal and unflagging enthusiasm of Junipero Serra andhis immediate followers coul

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