. Peninsular California; some account of the climate, soil productions, and present condition chiefly of the northern half of Lower California. PENINSULAR CALIFORNIA. CHAPTER I. HISTORICAL SUMMARY OF THE PENINSULA. rpHE Peninsula called Lower California stretches, as-^ will be seen on the map, from Cape St. Lucas in thesouth, in latitude 22° 40, to the United States boundary,in latitude 32° 40. It was first visited by Europeans in1533, a vessel under the orders of Cortez discovering andentering a bay on the Gulf coast, supposed to have beenthe present La Paz. Cortez himself visited the Peninsu
. Peninsular California; some account of the climate, soil productions, and present condition chiefly of the northern half of Lower California. PENINSULAR CALIFORNIA. CHAPTER I. HISTORICAL SUMMARY OF THE PENINSULA. rpHE Peninsula called Lower California stretches, as-^ will be seen on the map, from Cape St. Lucas in thesouth, in latitude 22° 40, to the United States boundary,in latitude 32° 40. It was first visited by Europeans in1533, a vessel under the orders of Cortez discovering andentering a bay on the Gulf coast, supposed to have beenthe present La Paz. Cortez himself visited the Peninsulain 1588, anchoring in the bay of La Paz, where, one hun-dred and seventy-five years later, in 1710, another famouscharacter, Alexander Selkirk, then saihng-master of theDover, one of Woodes Rogerss fieet, also lay to had been taken by the Dover from the island ofJuan Fernandez. After Cortez, a considerable number of Spanish expe-ditions were sent to the Peninsula. Their misfortunewas that they landed on the driest, hottest, and moststormy coasts, those on the Gulf side, and on the south-ern extension of the long land-spi
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