. Views of Southern California . o •a C 1 3 to 3 ?° •*! m OS 1 § a H » UBRARY OF CONGRESS Hill 0 017 168 064 5 ^>. outwent California OUTHERN CALIFORNIA is the name usually applied to the seven southernmost counties of thegreat Golden State, namely, Los Angeles, Orange, San Bernardino, Riverside, San Diego, Ventura andSanta Barbara, which have a combined area of 45,000 square miles and a total population of more than450,000. This country has a coast line of about 275 miles, and by a peculiar configuration of two hun-dred miles of mountains at a distance of from thirty to ninety miles fr


. Views of Southern California . o •a C 1 3 to 3 ?° •*! m OS 1 § a H » UBRARY OF CONGRESS Hill 0 017 168 064 5 ^>. outwent California OUTHERN CALIFORNIA is the name usually applied to the seven southernmost counties of thegreat Golden State, namely, Los Angeles, Orange, San Bernardino, Riverside, San Diego, Ventura andSanta Barbara, which have a combined area of 45,000 square miles and a total population of more than450,000. This country has a coast line of about 275 miles, and by a peculiar configuration of two hun-dred miles of mountains at a distance of from thirty to ninety miles from the Pacific Ocean it is, in a sense,isolated from outside climatic influences and preserved as a land unequalled on the face of the globe — aland of perpetual summer with no extremes of heat and cold and a climate that makes the sick well andthe strong more vigorous — where flowers, fruits and grasses grow and ripen every calendar day of theyear. At points on the coast of Southern California there is scarcely any noticeable difference betweenthe average monthly temperature of July and January, and even at Losviewsofsouthernc00losa


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