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Cape Guardafui, known as Ras Asir in Arabic, was formerly called the Cape of Spices. The origin of the name Guardafui is uncertain. The seas around the promontory are sometimes hazardous because of fogs.
GUARDI, gwar'de, Francesco (1712-1793), Italian painter. His favorite subject was the city of Venice, either in exact views or in imaginary visions, and he is rivaled only by Canaletto in this field.His paintings, which have a profound serenity, show the countryside around Fon-tainebleau, the Auvergne, and the Nivernaise. His favorite subject was the banks of the Allier at dusk and in 1861 his Edge of a Wood Beside the Allier attracted considerable attention in ftiris. His landscapes are skillfully drawn and mthentically colored, many of them with a pre-iuminantly silvery cast. Harpignies died at St.-Prive, Yonne, on Aug. 29, 1916.
San Francisco was a favorite subject; of the several panoramas made of the city the most spectacular was taken on five plates by William Shew, who went to California from Boston in 1850. He sent around Cape Horn a studio-on-wheels that he called his Daguerreotype Saloon; he photographed it in Portsmouth Square in San Francisco just after the great fire of 1851. Among the earliest news photographs in existence are a series of daguerreotypes of burning mills in Oswego, New York by George N.
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