. To California and back; . n the whole of NorthernCalifornia, a town more attractively environedthan San Jose. It lies in the heart of the val-ley, protected by mountain-walls from everywandering asperity of land or sea, a clean, regu-larly platted city, reaching off through avenuesof pine and of eucalyptus, and through or-chards and vineyards, to pretty forest slopeswhere roads climb past rock, glen and rivuletto fair, commanding heights. The immediateneighborhood is the center of prune production,and every year exports great quantities ofberries, fruits and wines. The largest seed-farms and
. To California and back; . n the whole of NorthernCalifornia, a town more attractively environedthan San Jose. It lies in the heart of the val-ley, protected by mountain-walls from everywandering asperity of land or sea, a clean, regu-larly platted city, reaching off through avenuesof pine and of eucalyptus, and through or-chards and vineyards, to pretty forest slopeswhere roads climb past rock, glen and rivuletto fair, commanding heights. The immediateneighborhood is the center of prune production,and every year exports great quantities ofberries, fruits and wines. The largest seed-farms and the largest herd of short-hornedcattle in the world are here. Twenty-six miles east from San Jose is MountHamilton, upon whose summit the white wallof the Lick Observatory is plainly visible atthat distance. This observatory has already be-come celebrated for thediscovery of Jupitersfifth satellite, and givespromise of affordingman)^ another astronom-ical sensation in time tocome. Visitors are per-mitted to look through129. the great telescope one night in the week, andin the intervals a smaller glass sufficiently pow-erful to yield a good view of the planets in thebroad sunlight of midday is devoted to theirentertainment. It is reached by stage fromSan Jose, the round trip being made from the attraction of the famous sky-glass, supplanted by the multitudinous andelaborate mechanisms of the observatory, theride through the mountains to Mount Hamiltonmore than compensates the small fatigue of thejourney. There are backward glimpses of thebeautiful valley, and a changing panorama ofthe Sierra, the road making loops and turns inthe shadow of live oaks on the brink of pro-found crater-like depressions. Santa Cruz is a popular resort by the sea,possessing picturesque rocks and a fine back-ground of the mountains that bear its at hand is a much-visited grove of BigTrees, the approach to which leads through oakand fir, past cailons fringed with madrona andmanzan
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