. Crofutt's new Overland tourist, and Pacific Coast guide ... over the Union, Kansas, Central and Southern Pacific Railroads, their branches and connections, by rail, water and stage .. . ere are landed largequantities of coal from the Liverpool ves-sels that come here to load with grain. Thecoal is brought for ballast, more than forprofit. Rattlesnake Island is in front of the liar-bor—sand principally San Pedro Pointis two miles south, and Point Fermin,around that point to the we-t, reached bywagon-road around the beach or over theblutfs, six miles distant DeadmansIsland is a small,isolated
. Crofutt's new Overland tourist, and Pacific Coast guide ... over the Union, Kansas, Central and Southern Pacific Railroads, their branches and connections, by rail, water and stage .. . ere are landed largequantities of coal from the Liverpool ves-sels that come here to load with grain. Thecoal is brought for ballast, more than forprofit. Rattlesnake Island is in front of the liar-bor—sand principally San Pedro Pointis two miles south, and Point Fermin,around that point to the we-t, reached bywagon-road around the beach or over theblutfs, six miles distant DeadmansIsland is a small,isolated rocky peak, wherecommences the breakwater improvementbelow Point Pedro. Fermin Point is on the most prominentheadland on the west, surmounted with alight of the first order, [which is kept bytwo ladies.] Near this point, in stone, isthe subject of our illustration, below,called San Pedros Wife or the WomanOF THE Period. The distance from Wilmington bysteamer to San Francisco is 387 miles; toSan Diego, 95 miles; to Santa CatalinaIsland, 20 miles. This sland is owned bythe Lick estate, is 35 miles long and tenwide, on which are some gold mines, andgreat numbers of sheep and SAN Pedros wife or, thp woman of the period. 22-1 CROFUTT S NEW OVEULAXD TOUIUST The Island San Clemente is 30 milesfurther, a lon^, narrow strip of land, onwhich there is no water, where rangethousands of sheep and goats, which seemto thrive better than on Santa CatalinaIsland, where water is abundant. Returning again to Los Angeles, westart over the Han Diego Division. Leaving Los Angeles, the course is thesame as over the Wilmington route toFlorence, six miles south, where our routeturns to the left. Leaving Florence, we cross the LosAngeles lliver, along which are some broad,rich bottom lands, passing large groves ofeucalyptus trees, and further come to Downey—This is a thrifty town ofagriculturalists, about 500 in number, withsome good buildings. The Central Hotelis the principal hotel. Th
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