. To California and back;. a^ ^^^^ -^ ^ J L 4 \- 1. attractions that congregate at holiday-resorts, theyare the Brighton and Manhattan beaches of thiscoast, enhanced by verdure and a softer chme, anda picturesquely varied shore. Both are locally cele-brated among lovers of bathing, boating and fish-ing. Santa Monica is the California home of is the point of departure for Santa Cata-lina Island. SANTA CATALINA ISLAM), Twenty miles off the coast it rises, like Capri,from the sea, a many-peaked mountain-cap, varyingin width from half a mile to nine miles, and more thantwenty long.

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. To California and back;. a^ ^^^^ -^ ^ J L 4 \- 1. attractions that congregate at holiday-resorts, theyare the Brighton and Manhattan beaches of thiscoast, enhanced by verdure and a softer chme, anda picturesquely varied shore. Both are locally cele-brated among lovers of bathing, boating and fish-ing. Santa Monica is the California home of is the point of departure for Santa Cata-lina Island. SANTA CATALINA ISLAM), Twenty miles off the coast it rises, like Capri,from the sea, a many-peaked mountain-cap, varyingin width from half a mile to nine miles, and more thantwenty long. Its bold cliff-shores are broken byoccasional pockets rimmed by a semicircular beachof sand. The most famous of these is Avalon, quitethe most frequented camping-ground of SouthernCalifornia. In midsummer its two hotels are filledto overflowing, and in the hundreds of tents clus-tered by the waters edge as many as 3,000 pleasure-seekers are gathered in the height of the is the period of Santa Catalinas greatestanimation, for then, as i

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