California south . From the Mission Tower* SOUTH of Point Concepcion on the coast of California, arange of wooded mountains follows the inland turn of theshore a little way and then off to the east from the oceanmeets another link in a mountain chain that, with other rangescurving to the south, forms a circular mountain wall with itsends neighboring the Pacific. Rugged, steep, and high in theinterior, and reaching its climax in snow-capped peaks a hundred miles, perhaps, to theeast of the sea as abeam of the setting suntravels, this wall is ir-regular, broken andtwisted; here ventu
California south . From the Mission Tower* SOUTH of Point Concepcion on the coast of California, arange of wooded mountains follows the inland turn of theshore a little way and then off to the east from the oceanmeets another link in a mountain chain that, with other rangescurving to the south, forms a circular mountain wall with itsends neighboring the Pacific. Rugged, steep, and high in theinterior, and reaching its climax in snow-capped peaks a hundred miles, perhaps, to theeast of the sea as abeam of the setting suntravels, this wall is ir-regular, broken andtwisted; here venture-some mountain spursmake inroads on thevalley, there the lowercountry encroachesupon the domain of thehills with flaring val-leys or narrow ridges sink intolower slopes where ra-vines lie, and at meas-ured intervals the sen-tinel peaks of , Mt. Wilson, Antonio, Straw-berry Peak, Mt. SanBernardino, Mt. SanGorgonio and Mt. SanJacinto stand these mountains and the ocean the country slope
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