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Title: Travels in Europe and America
Year: 1903 (1900s)
Authors: Bolton, Charles E(dward), 1841-1901. (from old catalog)
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Publisher: New York, T. Y. Crowell & co
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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City of Angels, has sprung in afew brief years to be the Metropolis of SouthernCalifornia/ It is 482 miles from San Francisco,and can be reached by rail or steamer. It is theterminus of three Southern Over-land routes, thehome of culture and refinement. The area of thejustly celebrated climate of Southern California islimited largely to the coast line in the form of asegment of an arc, from Point Conception, SantaBarbara County to San Diego. Mountains north,and Islands along the coast shield several lovelyvalleys from cold winds, and an ocean eddy bringsto this coast warm waters from the South. Fromthe mountains come invigorating atmosphere, thedesert sends a pure dry air, and the sea contributesdaily breezes, a tonic fresh and bracing. The airis warm, sweet, and delicious. Here semi-tropicalfruits, and rare exotics grow in open air the winterthrough, strawberries ripen every month in theyear, and radiant butterflies constantly flit amongever-blooming flowers. No wonder that invalids
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GIANT CACTUS. TRAVELS, 415 and tourists crowd to this land of perpetual summer,and soft Italian skies, when one can live out ofdoors 340 days out of the year, in mellow sunlight. Where a leaf never dies in the still blooming bowers,And the bee banquets on thro a whole year of flowers,******* * Where a wind ever soft from the blue heaven blows,And the groves are of laurel and myrtle and rose, The Cacti on the Mojave desert and in SouthernCalifornia are numerous and of great variety. Thehot sands blossom with bright red and yellow cactiamong Yucca palms all along the railway fromMojave over the mountains. The eye often restswith pleasure on the tall white and plume-likebayonet palm. There are probably a thousandvarieties, nipple, hedge hog, prickly pear, torch,thistle and other cacti in North and South Amer-ica. Some are from twenty to thirty feet high.One variety furnishes the cochineal of commerce.The Kew Gardens exhibit a cactus that weighs aton. The Spanish Americans plant some vari

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