What to see in America . hatched altar, andswung from the limbsof an oak, which stilllives, the clarionbells that should callto the worship of thetrue God the Indiansof the vicinity. SanCarlos Mission wasafterward removedfrom the site nearthe garrison to a val-ley, six miles away, where the Carmel River meets the fourteen years Father Junipero lived there, only goingat intervals to the other Missions he established. Theywere all approximately thirty miles apart — a days 1784 the good priest died at San Carlos, and there helies buried. The church as it is now is one of the
What to see in America . hatched altar, andswung from the limbsof an oak, which stilllives, the clarionbells that should callto the worship of thetrue God the Indiansof the vicinity. SanCarlos Mission wasafterward removedfrom the site nearthe garrison to a val-ley, six miles away, where the Carmel River meets the fourteen years Father Junipero lived there, only goingat intervals to the other Missions he established. Theywere all approximately thirty miles apart — a days 1784 the good priest died at San Carlos, and there helies buried. The church as it is now is one of the mostattractive and extensive ruins on the coast. Its exterior isalmost perfect, and much of the decorative masonry has notyet crumbled. About thirty miles easterly from Monterey, near Soledadon the Southern Pacific Railroad, are numerous caves, andthere are many spire-like rock formations that are from sixhundred to one thousand feet high. These Pinnacles arevisible for a long distance. Seventy-five miles farther south. The Three Brothers — \ osemite Califomia 475 on the railroad is Paso Robles (Pass of the Oaks). Hereare medicinal springs which healed the Indians long beforethe white men came. Now^ you find a great establishmentthat is both a sanatorium and a tourist hotel, where everykind of water cure may be taken. The temperature of thesulphur spring that supplies the bathhouse is one hundredand seven degrees. A little farther south, at San Luis Obispo, is another of theold Missions. In the garden-court of the Mission, guardedby a white-pillared portico and the cupola-spire of thechurch, are gnarled grapevines and an enormous palm. SanLuis is connected by railroad with Port Harford, near w^hichis Pizmo Beach, an ex- _________,,__„________ traordinary floor of hard- ?™«^^^ ^Mpp packed sand, twenty miles in length. In summer this beach is thronged with people who dwell for the most part in neighboring tents and cottages. Over the firm shining strand many fast motor r
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