To the golden land; sketches of a trip to Southern California . e Liberal chief who hasthree times ruled the British Empire, and may probablyrule it again. It might much amuse, too, if I made my readersacquainted with strange, unlooked-for personages, castby the ocean of circumstance upon these cosmopolitanshores; with the sons of John Brown, of Harpers Ferryfame, settled here in their mountain-home; with thenephew of an English bishop, who at one not-distantperiod of his chequered career turned an honest pennyby taking the ten-cent pieces at the door of a dime-show; with the nephew of Garibal
To the golden land; sketches of a trip to Southern California . e Liberal chief who hasthree times ruled the British Empire, and may probablyrule it again. It might much amuse, too, if I made my readersacquainted with strange, unlooked-for personages, castby the ocean of circumstance upon these cosmopolitanshores; with the sons of John Brown, of Harpers Ferryfame, settled here in their mountain-home; with thenephew of an English bishop, who at one not-distantperiod of his chequered career turned an honest pennyby taking the ten-cent pieces at the door of a dime-show; with the nephew of Garibaldi running a saloon;the son of a most famous Confederate General sellingland and houses on commission ; or the nephew ofWashington Irving cultivating his ranch and happy withhis Indian squaw. The motto of California is, or oughtto be—Get along anyhow and anywhere, but get motto now must be—Forbear. The direct road to San Diego is by the coast-linerailway, the distance south from Los Angeles being 135miles. We preferred to take the longer and more. TO THE GOLDEN LAND. 47 picturesque route (180 miles long inland through themountains, resting for a couple of days in the Riversideregion. The history of Riverside is fairly illustrative ofthe history of multitudes of Californian places. It usedto be accounted part of the arid, waterless Californiandesert. Keen-eyed men passed that way; they saw thatthe so-called waste was covered with deep rich soilwhitened by the sun; they acquired the land, divertedpart of the waters of the Santa Anna river, carried twoirrigating streams through their possessions, and now yousee a pretty town full of detached dwellings, surroundedby orange groves rich these February days with theirgolden fruit, and ride along a magnificent avenue sevenmiles long by 100 feet wide, and shaded by spreadingmagnolia and eucalyptus trees, through which may beseen the picturesque homes of a comfortable people. Riverside presents one aspect doubtless of deep i
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