Old Mexico and her lost provinces; a journey in Mexico, southern California, and Arizona, by way of Cuba . desert. The rest ofthe liigh, quadrangular valley, capable, no doubt, of asgreat development, if water can be brought upon it, re-mains in its natural condition. A lovely drive, called Magnolia Avenue, planted withdouble rows of pepper and eucalyptus trees, extendsthrough the length of the place from north to is bordered with homes, making pretensions to muchmore than comfort. The best of these are at the divisioncalled Arlington, four miles below the post-office of Kiv-erside pr
Old Mexico and her lost provinces; a journey in Mexico, southern California, and Arizona, by way of Cuba . desert. The rest ofthe liigh, quadrangular valley, capable, no doubt, of asgreat development, if water can be brought upon it, re-mains in its natural condition. A lovely drive, called Magnolia Avenue, planted withdouble rows of pepper and eucalyptus trees, extendsthrough the length of the place from north to is bordered with homes, making pretensions to muchmore than comfort. The best of these are at the divisioncalled Arlington, four miles below the post-office of Kiv-erside proper. The native adobe, or sun-dried brick, sup-plemented with ornamental wood-work, has been used asmaterial with excellent effect. In the interiors are foundvugs, portieres, Morriss wall-papers, and all the parapher-nalia of the latest Eastern civilization; and there is anarchery club and a German. Invalidism is heard of with considerable frequency asan excuse for the migration hither. Certainly many ad-vantages offer to the invalid. The climate permits him SAN DIEGO, AiVB THE MEXICAN FRONTIER. 451. ADOBE RESIDENCE AT RIVERSIDE. to be almost constantly out-of-doors. The sk)^ is bine, thesun unclouded, nearly every day in the year, and he cango into his orchard and concern himself about liis Navelor Brazilian oranges, his paper-rind St. Michaels, and hisTahiti seedlings^ with little let or hinderance. Orangeculture affords him both a career and a revenue. If theunchanging blue of the sky grow sometimes monotonous,there are other distractions in the noble mountain has in this resource a touch of the charm ofSwitzerland. Your entertainer points out to you fromhis piazza the great peaks of Grey lock, San Bernardino,and San Jacinto, from ten to twelve thousand feet inheight, and crowned with snow for a considerable partof the year, just as the Jungfrau is pointed out fromInterlaken and Mont Blanc from Geneva. It is a description that applies to all of Southern Cal
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