Southern California; . 108 and association with tlu> history of bjgonc days. Theold sacristan is the brother of a mission soldier of sixtyyears ago. In the veins of its inhabitants flows theblood of mission soldiers and mission Indians. Hereare pedigrees worth disentangling, and stories enoughto stock a library. From the train, however, the mis-sion looks like little more than a forlorn adobe ruin, andman) a traveler looks up from his book for a moment inpassing and thinks he has seen it. About Capistrano and through much of the districton to Los Angeles are beautiful orchards of English. w
Southern California; . 108 and association with tlu> history of bjgonc days. Theold sacristan is the brother of a mission soldier of sixtyyears ago. In the veins of its inhabitants flows theblood of mission soldiers and mission Indians. Hereare pedigrees worth disentangling, and stories enoughto stock a library. From the train, however, the mis-sion looks like little more than a forlorn adobe ruin, andman) a traveler looks up from his book for a moment inpassing and thinks he has seen it. About Capistrano and through much of the districton to Los Angeles are beautiful orchards of English. walnuts. There is something very cool and restfulai)out these groves of trees, planted far apart, with theirclean, smooth bark and ample spread of foliage. Thereis also much fine grazing land where herds of cattlerange over the meadows and hills, and just beyondCapistrano is a magnificent grove of old sycamores bentinto fantastic shapes with their huge light trunks andsprawling limbs. We pass El Toro and presently reach vSanta Ana, thelargest town of Orange County. It is in the midst of afine fruit country devoted to the cultivation of oranges,walnuts, olives and loquats, and its streets present an
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