. To California and back; . hward from the last-named city you passthrough a fruitful region, and within a stonesthrow of the impressive mission-ruins of Capis-trano, to a shore where the long waves of thePacific break upon gleaming white sands andthe air is of the sea. Blue as the sky is thePacific, paling in the shallows toward land, andflecked with bright or somber cloud reflectionsand smurring ripples of the breeze. It is notonly the westerly bound of the North AmericanContinent, it is the South Seas of old adventure,where many a hulk of once treasure-laden gal-leons lies fathoms deep amon
. To California and back; . hward from the last-named city you passthrough a fruitful region, and within a stonesthrow of the impressive mission-ruins of Capis-trano, to a shore where the long waves of thePacific break upon gleaming white sands andthe air is of the sea. Blue as the sky is thePacific, paling in the shallows toward land, andflecked with bright or somber cloud reflectionsand smurring ripples of the breeze. It is notonly the westerly bound of the North AmericanContinent, it is the South Seas of old adventure,where many a hulk of once treasure-laden gal-leons lies fathoms deep among the queer deni-zens of the sea who repeat wild legends ofnaughty buccaneers. There is challenge to theimagination in the very tracklessnessof the the wrinkled face of earth you may readearths story. She has laid things to heart. Shebroods on memories. But the sea denies thepast; it is as heedless of events that were as theair is of the path where yesterday a butterflywas winging. Its incontinent expanse is allur-66. ing to the fancy, and this sunset sea even morethan the tempestuous ocean that beats upon oureastern shores, for it is so lately become ourpossession it seems still a foreign thing, strewnwith almost as many wrecks of Spanish hopesas of galleons; and into its broad bosom the sunsinks to rise upon quaint antipodean peoples,beyond a thousand mysterious inhabited islandsin the swirls of the equatorial currents. Next, swinging inland to find the pass of thelast intervening hills, you make 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
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