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Sighting the Pacific:
In the last phase of his overland journey across Mexico, Benajah Antrim reported in his diary that he had seen mirages (imaginary bodies of water) shimmer in the distance above heated sands as his traveling party headed over salt flats for the coastline. Suddenly "... the declining Sun was shedding his gentler evening rays upon us from over the hills of the port of Mazatlan, and for the first time a broad and beautiful view of the Pacific Ocean, its islands, shipping, and its foaming surfs that chased each other rapidly upon the pretty beach before us. What a captivating view..." |