. The Pacific tourist : Williams' illustrated trans-continental guide of travel, from the Atlantic to the Pacific Ocean : containing full descriptions of railroad routes across the continent, all pleasure resorts and places of most noted scenery in the far West, also of all cities, towns, villages, Forts, springs, lakes, mountains, routes of summer travel, best localities for hunting, fishing, sporting, and enjoyment, with all needful information for the pleasure traveler, miner, settler, or business man : a complete traveler's guide of the Union and Central Pacific Railroads and all poin
. The Pacific tourist : Williams' illustrated trans-continental guide of travel, from the Atlantic to the Pacific Ocean : containing full descriptions of railroad routes across the continent, all pleasure resorts and places of most noted scenery in the far West, also of all cities, towns, villages, Forts, springs, lakes, mountains, routes of summer travel, best localities for hunting, fishing, sporting, and enjoyment, with all needful information for the pleasure traveler, miner, settler, or business man : a complete traveler's guide of the Union and Central Pacific Railroads and all points of business or pleasure travel to California, Colorado, Nebraska, Wyoming, Utah, Nevada, Montana, the mines and mining of the territories, the lands of the Pacific Coast, the wonders of the Rocky Mountains, the scenery of the Sierra Nevadas, the Colorado mountains, the big trees, the geysers, the Yosemite, and the Yellowstone . are much frequented, butrather by visitors seeking summer recreationthan by health seekers. The best place for the consumptive patient isregarded by some good judges to be on an eleva-tion among the hills of the Coast Range in sum-mer, where the change of temperature will beonly a few degrees, and in Southern California,a little back from the coast in winter. In suchan equable climate, the patient can camp out,and keep in the open air, which is the best pos-sible restorative. The climate of San Francisco, which inducesno perspiration, and by dampness aggravatesrheumatic and neuralgic affections, is the mostfavorable in the world for mental invigorationand work. Malaria is found in all the lowlands, andoften among the foothills, but elevated placesare entirely free from it. In short, there is such a variety of climatewithin a days reach of San Francisco that theinvalid may be sure of rinding, somewhere onthe Pacific Coast, whatever natural advantagewill be most beneficial to his
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