Southern California; . upon which we walked with firui foot so recently ?Directly below is the broad plain of the San Gabriel Val-ley, with great squares of green fields and orange grovesand little specks of houses. There lies Pasadena amongits trees, and beyond the Mission Hills, Los look upon the water of reservoirs, upon Eastlakeand Westlake parks in the suburbs of L,os Angeles, andbeyond all this upon the misty ocean with an archi-. pelago of islands marking the horizon line. It is all onsuch an overpowering scale that we seem half in adream — the whole wide earth seems lying at
Southern California; . upon which we walked with firui foot so recently ?Directly below is the broad plain of the San Gabriel Val-ley, with great squares of green fields and orange grovesand little specks of houses. There lies Pasadena amongits trees, and beyond the Mission Hills, Los look upon the water of reservoirs, upon Eastlakeand Westlake parks in the suburbs of L,os Angeles, andbeyond all this upon the misty ocean with an archi-. pelago of islands marking the horizon line. It is all onsuch an overpowering scale that we seem half in adream — the whole wide earth seems lying at our feet. Again we change cars, this time for an electric roadwhich winds back and forth up the face of the mountain,around the edge of precipices, with canyons below andaround, and with incomparable vistas through forests ofoak and pine of the far-away regions of the plain. Welook down upon the tops of mountain ranges and intogreat valleys — La Caiiada and SanFernando lie beneath. We passthrough granite cuts, over circularbridges, winding and climbing as I ibelieve no mountain road ever woundand climbed before, and finally come iupon a lovely sylvan nook amid thepine trees where a rural inn is set inthe midst of the forest. The Alpine Tavern is in perfect
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