Southern California . ?? the bluff, past the picturesque Green Dragon cottage and off toward the caves, with the vision of the sundipping down into the ocean and the long curving line of foaming breakers on the shore, stands out vividly inthe mind as an enchanting 104 FROM SAN DIEGO TO LOS ANGELES. SAN DIEGO and Santa Barbara are the southern-most and northernmost cities on the SouthernCalifornia coast, with Los Angeles nearly mid-way between them, but although nearly two hundredand thirty miles apart the climatic conditions do notvary as greatly as might naturally appear. At PointConc
Southern California . ?? the bluff, past the picturesque Green Dragon cottage and off toward the caves, with the vision of the sundipping down into the ocean and the long curving line of foaming breakers on the shore, stands out vividly inthe mind as an enchanting 104 FROM SAN DIEGO TO LOS ANGELES. SAN DIEGO and Santa Barbara are the southern-most and northernmost cities on the SouthernCalifornia coast, with Los Angeles nearly mid-way between them, but although nearly two hundredand thirty miles apart the climatic conditions do notvary as greatly as might naturally appear. At PointConception, noted since the days of the early Spanishexplorers, the coast line makes an abrupt bend to theHast, thus giving the land a southern exposure to thesea. The Santa Barbara Islands break the force of windand storms upon the shore, and the traveler upon coast-ing steamers, southward bound, is immediately im-pressed with the change of climate, upon rounding thishistoric cape ; from the cold, windy sea entering thecalm mild reaches of the Santa Barbara channel. The land journey from San Diego to Los Angelesover the Santa Fe Railroad affords the traveler a super-ficial view of a large section of Southern California;although it is a serious mistake to assume that
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