Southern California; . , near the shore of which standsan excellent hotel known as The Lakeside. A stageroad leads to Alpine, farther up in the mountains — a i ,. UJJ a: charming little resort amongthe oak trees— while at stillgreater altitudes are forestsof pine and fir. Beyond allthis, but many miles inland,-^ lies the Colorado Desert, aportion of which is depressedabout three hundred feetbelow the level of the sea. A favorite excursion fromSan Diego is throughNational City, Chula Vista and Otay across the UnitedStates boundary into old Mexico. Tia Juana, thelittle town across the border, su
Southern California; . , near the shore of which standsan excellent hotel known as The Lakeside. A stageroad leads to Alpine, farther up in the mountains — a i ,. UJJ a: charming little resort amongthe oak trees— while at stillgreater altitudes are forestsof pine and fir. Beyond allthis, but many miles inland,-^ lies the Colorado Desert, aportion of which is depressedabout three hundred feetbelow the level of the sea. A favorite excursion fromSan Diego is throughNational City, Chula Vista and Otay across the UnitedStates boundary into old Mexico. Tia Juana, thelittle town across the border, suffered from a disastrousflood a few years ago, and has been rebuilt as a rathercommonplace Mexican hamlet. There are stores whereMexican curios are exposed for sale, and Reuben, theguide who conducts parties across the line, is worth a tripto almost any place to see. With the exception of theostriches, I do not remember to have seen anj^thing inSouthern California quite so original and unusual asReuben. He is dark — very dark, in fact — and hismouth may be fitly compared with the correspondingportion of the above-mentioned bird. But the moststriking
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