. To California and back; . ke a final descentto the waters edge, and come to San Diego,that dreamy city of Mediterranean atmosphereand color, terraced along the rim of a shelteredbay of surpassing beauty. Guarding the mouthof the harbor lies the long crescent peninsularof Coronado, the pale facades of whose mam-moth hotel flash through tropical vegetationacross the blue intervening waters. OF CLIMATE. Here the sun habitually shines. Near thecoast flows the broad equable Japanese ocean-current, from which a tempered breeze sweepsoverland every morning, every night to returnfrom the cool mounta
. To California and back; . ke a final descentto the waters edge, and come to San Diego,that dreamy city of Mediterranean atmosphereand color, terraced along the rim of a shelteredbay of surpassing beauty. Guarding the mouthof the harbor lies the long crescent peninsularof Coronado, the pale facades of whose mam-moth hotel flash through tropical vegetationacross the blue intervening waters. OF CLIMATE. Here the sun habitually shines. Near thecoast flows the broad equable Japanese ocean-current, from which a tempered breeze sweepsoverland every morning, every night to returnfrom the cool mountain-tops. Between the firstof May and the last of October rain almost neverfalls. By the end of June the earth has evap-orated most of its surface moisture, and vegeta-tion unsustained by artificial watering beginsto languish. The midday temperature nowrises, but the same breeze swings like a pendu-lum between ocean and mountain, and nightand early morning are no less is summer, a joyous and active season67. generally misconceived by the tourist, who notunreasonably visits California in the winter-time to escape Northern cold and snow, and in-fers an unendurable torrid summer from awinter of mildness and luxuriance. With November the first showers generallybegin, followed by an occasional heavy down-pour, and Northern pastures now whiten underfalling snow hardly faster than do these serehills turn beryl-green. The rainy season is socalled not because it is characterized by contin-uous rainfall, but to distinguish it from thatportion of the year in which rain can not belooked for. Bright days are still the rule, andshowery days are marked by transcendentbeauties of earth and sky, fleeting wonders ofform and color. Let the morning open with amurky zenith, dark tumbled cloud-massesdropping shower. As the invisible sun mounts,he peeps unexpectedly through a rift to seethat his world is safe, then vanishes. The skyhas an unrelenting look. The mountains areobscured.
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