Southern California; . he shore, and the traveler upon coast-ing steamers, southward bound, is immediately im-pressed with the change of climate, upon rounding thishistoric cape ; from the cold, windy sea entering thecalm mild reaches of the Santa Barbara channel. The land journey from Sau Diego to Los Angelesover the Santa Fe aflFords the traveler a super-ficial view of a large section of Southern California;although it is a serious mistake to assume that such asurvey can be other than superficial. It is not infre-quently misleading as well, for the same *,section of country undergoes such in
Southern California; . he shore, and the traveler upon coast-ing steamers, southward bound, is immediately im-pressed with the change of climate, upon rounding thishistoric cape ; from the cold, windy sea entering thecalm mild reaches of the Santa Barbara channel. The land journey from Sau Diego to Los Angelesover the Santa Fe aflFords the traveler a super-ficial view of a large section of Southern California;although it is a serious mistake to assume that such asurvey can be other than superficial. It is not infre-quently misleading as well, for the same *,section of country undergoes such incalcu- wilable transformations dependent upon the MvJ-weather, season, and time of day. A hot, /jlff^dry wind from the Santa Ana Canyon, known KJ/ikfm consequence as a Santa Ana, will, in a *^ *?few hours, make a green fertile region lookwithered and desolate, while a foggy night/H;following will revive the vegetation and /Jalter the entire face of the country. Again,!?,«*;a dry winter which the country occasionally. experiences will leave in early summer a desert waste ofbrown where during a normal season luxuriant fields ofgrain would wave. Even a typical jcar presents striking contrasts in thedifferent seasons. Spring lasts all winter long withalternations of sun and shower, with green fields and.^ _. songs of birds, varied by an oc- casional cold snap as in an East-ern spring and some few drearycold drizzling rains. In thespring months there is an awak-ening of fruit blossoms and ofmany wild flowers, while thewinter birds hurry to theirNorthern homes and the sum-mer birds come crowding infrom the south. In the earlysummer the mustard is in itsfull glory of gold throughoutthe country, and the fields ofgrain are ripening and becom-ing brown. The orange cropof winter has been followed bythe deciduous fruits, and theold birds are leading their bauds of young from tree totree, some of them even venturing to sample the loquatsand apricots as the} pass. The dust begins to fl} in
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