. To California and back;. 6o SAN DIEGO AND VICINITY. Fringing a bay that for a dozen miles glows like agolden mirror below its purple rim, San Diego standsupon a slope that rises from the water to the summitof a broad mesa. In front the bold promontory ofPoint Loma juts into the sea, overlapping the lowslender peninsular of Coronado, and between themlies the narrow entrance to this most beautiful ofharbors. One may be happy in San Diego and donothing. Its soft sensuous beauty and caressing aircreate in the breast a new sense of the joy of mereexistence. But there is, besides, abundant materia
. To California and back;. 6o SAN DIEGO AND VICINITY. Fringing a bay that for a dozen miles glows like agolden mirror below its purple rim, San Diego standsupon a slope that rises from the water to the summitof a broad mesa. In front the bold promontory ofPoint Loma juts into the sea, overlapping the lowslender peninsular of Coronado, and between themlies the narrow entrance to this most beautiful ofharbors. One may be happy in San Diego and donothing. Its soft sensuous beauty and caressing aircreate in the breast a new sense of the joy of mereexistence. But there is, besides, abundant materialfor the sight-seer. Here, with many, begins the firstleisurely and intimate acquaintance with those objectsof unfailing interest, the growing orange and are on every hand; not in the profusion thatcharacterizes some of the more extensively developedlocalities, but still abundant, and inferior to none infruitage. Paradise Valley, the Valley of the Sweet-water, where may be seen the great irrigaling-fountof s
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